Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel

By Marty Jezer

Book Overview

In this sympathetic history of a maligned decade, Marty Jezer, a fellow antiwar activist, details Abbie Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, & above all, his incurable & still contagious optimism. He presents a thoughtful, solidly researched biography of the wildly creative & iconoclastic Yippie, portraying Hoffman as a fresh force in American political culture. Jezer surveys in detail the politics, philosophies, & struggles of the antiwar movement. ..". Abbie, more than any other radical, showed potheads how to demonstrate and radicals how to dance." -- Chicago Tribune ..". deeply sympathetic and scrupulously detached-a triumph of judicious empathy." -- MARTIN DUBERMAN, Distinguished Professor of History, Lehman/The Graduate School, C.U.N.Y. ..". details Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, and above all, his Incurable and still contagious optimism." -- Entertainment Weekly "Here's the Abbie I knew and loved Marty Jezer has captured him in all his complexity, dedication, humor, and heart." -- ANITA HOFFMAN

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518504
• ISBN13: 9780813518503
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Steal This Rebel

The book's great. A complete account of the life and times of one of the 1960's New Left's major characters.