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For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman Book

Raskin's scrupulously researched history corrects many of the myths Abbie Hoffman perpetuated about his life and career, yet also prompts new respect for the man as an able political strategist and organizer. Hard to believe from the staid book jacket photo, but the author (now a university professor) was "minister of education" in Hoffman's Youth International Party, better known as the Yippies. Raskin generally keeps his personal involvement in the background, but it obviously informs his well-rounded, antistereotypical depiction of the messy, often demented nature of 1960s radicalism.Read More

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  • Product Description

    As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In a riveting biography (first published in 1996), Jonah Raskin draws on his own 20-year relationship with Hoffman, along with hundreds of interviews and careful scrutiny of government and public documents. A must-read for those who seek a fuller understanding of this ultimate iconoclast and his America. 25 photos.

  • 0520213793
  • 9780520213791
  • Jonah Raskin
  • 21 May 1998
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 315
  • New Ed
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