We Are Everywhere.

By Jerry Rubin

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060902450
• ISBN13: 9780060902452
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Read this one

Don't just read this book. Don't just sit and wait for the sign. Write it yourself. The time has come...again.

Twilght of an era

In the closing years of the truly radical days of hippiedom, Jerry Rubin (of the Youth International Party, or "Yippie!" ) wrote a part-manifesto, part-screed; almost a sequal to his (in)famous work, "Do It!". Written mostly while in prison as one of the "Chicago Seven" (The original hand-written notes were smuggled out of prison by his lawyer), he gave a call to arms to bring forth an idealized vision of how the world could be. In an ironic note, he lated recanted much of his revolutionary rhetoric with his book "Growing (Up) at 37", became a Wall Street businessman, and met his end when he was struck by a taxi while jaywalking. This is a dated, slightly flawed work, but probably his best and strongest writing, with his Yippie spirit at his strongest, and to this day still resonates with energy. These days, we need people as impassioned as Jerry Rubin was. Not to divide us, but to bring us together.

A powerful insight into the madness of the late 60's

I fall short of giving this book a 10 because it lacks the "human" touch offered in Abbie Hoffman's books of the same era. Jerry was a great social organizer who, like Abbie, saw how wrong our country was... and tried to change it. This book will shock many a young conservative with it's brutal history from an era of hippies, pot, free love, and the questionable right to peacefully assemble. You may question his motives and you may disagree with his tactics....but Jerry WAS a true AmeriKan patriot. In the following decades he made lots of money on yogurt health drinks and the stock market.....oh well....read The Best Of Abbie Hoffman for a more clear and concise history "from the street."

a relieving taste of reality

the best book ive ever had the privlidge to touch im thrilled to see that people are also feeling the same thoughts im hacking on a friends computer and stumbeld on to this i highly recomend this to any of you people who cant stand the iggnorence of today and want to be back in the sixtys or if you want a taste of the sixties i loved it go for it and induldge