The revolt of the cockroach people - Oscar Zeta Acosta

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The further adventures of Dr.

Gonzo as he defends the cucarachas -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer 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.

In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades.

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 at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.