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Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson
Afterword by Marco Acosta.

In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo") takes readers behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and seventies. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer: a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police, but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.
Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as the eccentric Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974 and is presumed dead. View titles by Oscar Zeta Acosta
"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore:"

-- Saturday Review of Literature

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Introduction by Hunter S. Thompson
Afterword by Marco Acosta.

In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo") takes readers behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and seventies. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer: a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police, but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.

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Born in 1935, Oscar Zeta Acosta was an activist in the Chicano Movement and an attorney. His friendship with Hunter S. Thompson provided fodder for that author’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Acosta was dramatized as the eccentric Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974 and is presumed dead. View titles by Oscar Zeta Acosta

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"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore:"

-- Saturday Review of Literature

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