Top 10 Best "Oscar Zeta Acosta" Books

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Oscar Zeta Acosta
Hunter S. Thompson

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Bandido

Ilan Stavans

Oscar Zeta Acosta

Bandido

The Hispanic Malcolm X. Writer. Activist. Civil rights attorney. Obese, dark-skinned, and angry. Man with a surplus of personality. Man of vision. All the above describe Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. El Paso-born, Acosta became a leading figure in the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, winning landmark decisions in civil rights cases as an attorney. As a tireless writer and activist, he had a profound influence on his contemporaries. He seemed to be everywhere at once, knowing everyone in "el movimiento" and involving himself in many of its key moments. Tumultuous and prone to excess, he is the Samoan in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In 1974, after a last phone call to his son, Acosta disappeared in the Mexican state of Mazatlán. Hailed as "a fine, learned homage" (Kirkus), "a kaleidoscopic portrait" (Booklist), and "a game of mirrors" (The Washington Post), Bandido is a veritable tour de force. Through interviews and Acosta's writings (published and unpublished), Ilan Stavans reconstructs--even reinvents--the man behind the myth. Part biographical a...

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Oscar "Zeta" Acosta

Oscar Zeta Acosta
Ilan Stavans

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Postethnic Narrative Criticism

Rafael E. Saumell

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La frontera como falso refugio chicano, el caso de Oscar Zeta Acosta

Jesús Rosales

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta

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Love And Riot

Burton Moore
Andrea Alessandra Cabello

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Frederic P. Miller
Agnes F. Vandome
John McBrewster

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Postethnic Narrative Criticism

Frederick Luis Aldama

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Bandido

Ilan Stavans

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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Immensely readable...A Chicano Manchild in the Promised Land."

-- Publishers Weekly

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.

"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the life story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems to be fragmenting around him."

-- Saturday Review of Literature

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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Oscar Zeta Acosta
Hunter S. Thompson

Oscar Zeta Acosta

The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta
Hunter S. Thompson

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