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Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer 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.
Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
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Biography, Ethnic identity, History, Mexican Americans, Popular culture, West (u.s.), biography, Popular culture, united states, Political activists, EthnicityPeople
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United States, West (U.S.)Times
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The autobiography of a brown buffalo
1989, Vintage Books
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0679722130 9780679722137
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The autobiography of a brown buffalo.
1972, Straight Arrow Books
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0879320354 9780879320355
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Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books, 1972.
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