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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel is a biography of radical Abbie Hoffman, by Marty Jezer. It was published in 1992 by Rutgers University Press. Los Angeles Times reviewer Jonathan Kirsch, noting that Jezer had been Hoffman's "cohort" and "a veteran of Read More..

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Description	Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel is a biography of radical Abbie Hoffman, by Marty Jezer. It was published in 1992 by Rutgers University Press. Los Angeles Times reviewer Jonathan Kirsch, noting that Jezer had been Hoffman's "cohort" and "a veteran of 'the Woodstock Nation'", found the book to be "sympathetic but curiously aloof" and opined that it did not succeed in getting "behind the mask of comedy that Hoffman invariably presented to the world."Jonathan Kirsch, "Book Review: BOOK REVIEW : The Rise and Fall of Counterculture's Jester", Los Angeles Times, January 13, 1993. New York Times reviewer Todd Gitlin called the book "a solid account of the life of an inventive, destructive luftmensch, and a valuable cautionary tale for both the left and the right."Todd Gitlin, "University Presses: Man in a Flag Shirt", The New York Times, September 20, 1992. Entertainment Weekly said it was "a sympathetic history of a maligned decade" that "details Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, and above all, his incurable and still contagious optimism" and gave the book an "A" grade.Suzanne Ruta, "Book Review: Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel", November 13, 1992.The book later served as source material for the 2000 Hoffman biopic, Steal This Movie!Stephen Holden, "Film Review; That Was a Heady Time on the Left, Right?", The New York Times, August 18, 2000.
Description	Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel is a biography of radical Abbie Hoffman, by Marty Jezer. It was published in 1992 by Rutgers University Press. Los Angeles Times reviewer Jonathan Kirsch, noting that Jezer had been Hoffman's "cohort" and "a veteran of 'the Woodstock Nation'", found the book to be "sympathetic but curiously aloof" and opined that it did not succeed in getting "behind the mask of comedy that Hoffman invariably presented to the world."Jonathan Kirsch, "Book Review: BOOK REVIEW : The Rise and Fall of Counterculture's Jester", Los Angeles Times, January 13, 1993. New York Times reviewer Todd Gitlin called the book "a solid account of the life of an inventive, destructive luftmensch, and a valuable cautionary tale for both the left and the right."Todd Gitlin, "University Presses: Man in a Flag Shirt", The New York Times, September 20, 1992. Entertainment Weekly said it was "a sympathetic history of a maligned decade" that "details Hoffman's humor, manic energy, depressive spells, political skills, and above all, his incurable and still contagious optimism" and gave the book an "A" grade.Suzanne Ruta, "Book Review: Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel", November 13, 1992.The book later served as source material for the 2000 Hoffman biopic, Steal This Movie!Stephen Holden, "Film Review; That Was a Heady Time on the Left, Right?", The New York Times, August 18, 2000.

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Name	Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
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Authors	Marty Jezer
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Pages	345
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Isbn	978-0-8135-1850-3
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Publisher	Rutgers University Press
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Pub_date	1992
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