Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture is the inspirational life story of one of Abbie Hoffman, cofounder of the Yippie movement and one of the most important activists of the twentieth century. Hoffman recounts his growing involvement in the student movement as it rose to national prominence, giving behind-the-scenes details about the historic protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention and subsequent Chicago conspiracy trial, his "levitation' of the Pentagon, and his friendships with other movement leaders. This new edition ...
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Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture is the inspirational life story of one of Abbie Hoffman, cofounder of the Yippie movement and one of the most important activists of the twentieth century. Hoffman recounts his growing involvement in the student movement as it rose to national prominence, giving behind-the-scenes details about the historic protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention and subsequent Chicago conspiracy trial, his "levitation' of the Pentagon, and his friendships with other movement leaders. This new edition includes a selection of photographs documenting his continuing activism in the 1980s and a new Afterword by leading historian Howard Zinn about Hoffman's enduring legacy.
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Very Good. Size: 6x4x0; This book may be a little musty. The covers are clean with light shelf wear. The spine remains free of creasing. The pages are lightly tanned due to age. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
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Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. INTRODUCTION BY: Norman Mailer. CONTENTS: Introduction by Norman Mailer; Commence Prayer; Here Comes Trouble; The Whole World's Wrong and You're Right! ; Mama Tried; Family Forever; Origins of the International Jewish Conspiracy; A Teenager in the Fifties: Jewish Grease; From Bum to College Boy; Castro at Harvard Stadium; Berkeley and the Birth of the Sixties; Faulty Rubber, Failed Marriage; One Flew into the Cuckoo's Nest; Making Outrage Contagious; Duddy Meets the Avant Garde; Kindergarten for Organizers; Boston to Broadway; My Last Job; Hometown Ghetto Education; Going South; Being Right Is Not Enough: The Convention of 1964; Return to the South; The Hometown Stomp-in; The CIA Turned Me On to LSD; Out of Work--Free at Last; How to Talk Good; Festivals for Fun and Protest; Liberty House; Some Voices of Guidance; Here come the Hippies; Love and Utopia on the Lower East Side; Museum of the Streets; America Has More Television Sets Than Toilets; Cast of Characters; Rubin and the Rising of the Pentagon; Magic Foils the War Machine; 1968: The Year That Was; Chicago: The Whole World Is Watching; Living with Lawyers; Revolution for the Hell of It; So Long, HUAC, It's Been Good to Know Ya; Wrapping Yourself in the Flag; The Rise of Woodstock Nation; Looking Back on Woodstock; A Trial to End All Trials; The Road Show; Rags to Rags; Steal This Author; Bringing the War Home; Trashing in the Streets, Bombing in the Toilets; The Algerian Connection; The Last Round-up; America Is Born; The Haircut That Ended the Era; Bummed Out on the Movement; Hiding Out in the Colonies; McGovern and Miami; Sex, Women, Getting a Vasectomy, and All That Sticky Stuff; You Can't Have Your Coke and Eat It, Too; Gateway to the Underground; Epilogue; Aiding and Abetting. SYNOPSIS: THE ELECTRIFYING SHOCKER BY THE UNDEGROND SUPERSTAR Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring the greatest drop-out, cut-up, authority-hating, people-loving, hero and anti-hero of our times, Abbie Hoffman, back by popular demand after four years underground, writing the book that only he would dare to write, about the life that only he would dare to live! -and-Abbie Hoffman is the kind of guy every decent, hard-working citizen hopes his kid won't turn out to be. Now he has written a book about freedom, justice, liberation...all those disturbing, unsettling, outrageous concerns of the sixties. Relive it all. And start living again!
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Very Good. Reprint. Introduction by Normal Mailer. Mass market paperback. 286pp. Interior wrappers moderately toned, creases on the spine, very good or better.
