Description: Revolt of the Cockroach People, Paperback by Acosta, Oscar Zeta, ISBN 0679722122, ISBN-13 9780679722120, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.
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Book Title: Revolt of the Cockroach People
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Hispanic & Latino, Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Cultural Heritage, Biographical
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1989
Genre: Fiction, Social Science
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Item Length: 7.9 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
