SQUARE DANCING IN THE ICE AGE

ABBIE HOFFMAN

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Langue : anglais

Edité par SOUTH END PRESS, BOSTON, MA, 1982

089608194X / 9780896081949

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THIS BOOK IS IN PRISTINE UNUSED, UNOPENED CONDITION WITHOUT FLAWS. ABBIE HOFFMAN, THE CLOWN PRINCE OF COUNTERCULTURE ACTIVIST ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION IN THE 1960'S WAS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO SELL 3 POUNDS OF COCAINE TO AN UNDERGROUND NEW YORK POLICEMAN. RATHER THAN ACCEPTING IMPRISONMENT FOR 20 YEARS TO LIFE, HE WENT INTO HIDING WITH A COMPANION, JOHANNA LAWRENSON. HOFFMAN UNDERWENT SOME PLASTIC SURGERY, CHANGED HIS PERSONA AND TRAVELED TO EUROPE, CANADA AND MEXICO. JOHANNA AND ABBIE SETTLED IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED FINEVIEW IN UPPER NEW YORK STATE NEXT TO THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER. DURING HIS SIX YEARS IN HIDING, USING THE PSEUDONYM, BARRY FREED, HE WROTE A SERIES OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS MAGAZINES IN ORDER TO GENERATE INCOME. THIS BOOK CONTAINS 26 OF THOSE ESSAYS. SOME OF THE ESSAYS ARE PROTESTS AGAINST THE US GOVERNMENT POLICIES, POLITICS AND SOME ARE JUST DELIGHTFUL INSIGHTS INTO ISSUES THAT CONCERNED HIM. AMAZINGLY, HE WAS ABLE TO REMAIN FREE AND HE EVEN APPEARED BEFORE CONGRESS AS BARRY FREED TO TESTIFY ABOUT ISSUES WITHOUT BEING DETECTED.HOFFMAN AND LAWRENSON'S PRINICIPLE EFFORTS WERE TO PROTECT THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER FROM AN ATTEMPT BY THE UNITED STATES CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO REMOVE MANY OF THE RIVER'S SMALL ISLANDS TO EASE RIVER TRANSPORTATION DURING WINTER AND ALLOW SHIPPING WITH LARGE VESSELS FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO CHICAGO. INTERESTING READING ABOUT UNDERCOVER ACTIVISM IN THE 1970S.…

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Titre
SQUARE DANCING IN THE ICE AGE
Auteur
ABBIE HOFFMAN
Éditeur
SOUTH END PRESS, BOSTON, MA
Année de publication
1982
État de l'article
As New
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Soft cover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
089608194X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780896081949
Édition
First Edition.
Dimensions
5 1/2" x 8 3/8"
Catalogues du vendeur
68 CONVENTION, AMERICANA, COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT

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