For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman Paperback - 1998
by Jonah Raskin; Foreword by Eric Foner
As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In a riveting biography (first published in 1996), Jonah Raskin draws on his own 20-year relationship with Hoffman, along with hundreds of interviews and careful scrutiny of government and public documents. A must-read for those who seek a fuller understanding of this ultimate iconoclast and his America. 25 photos.
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"Raskin's biography of Abbie Hoffman pleases precisely because it does not evade the ambiguities of that wild time. For a cynical age, Raskin evokes some of its innocent pleasures: great rock-and-roll, movements against injustices, exuberant sex."--Jonathan Rieder, New York Times Book Review
"As much a corrective to a New Left history of the time as a biography of Abbie Hoffman, the wildest of the wildmen...Raskin's book is arranged like a series of filmed calender pages; behind the pages stand descriptions as vivid as movies of the formative influences moving with lightning speed across those few amazing years while Abbie, and the rhetoric inside him, grew apace."--Vivian Gornick, The Nation
"Hoffman remains one of the most vivid figures in an era that specialized in them...It would be very hard to read his life's story and not be affected by it."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"The book takes [Hoffman], his w ritings, and his politics seriously...Well-researched, well-reported, well-illustrated, and scrupulously documented."--Bruce McCabe, Boston Globe
"Not only a biography of an individual...but a fully rounded portrait of that era...Hoffman remains an utterly fascinating American icon, one of the most important performance-art patriots of our time."--Bernard Weiner, San Francisco Chronicle
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- Title For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman
- Author Jonah Raskin; Foreword by Eric Foner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 315
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-05-28
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520213791 / 0520213793
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 6.03 x 0.81 in (22.83 x 15.32 x 2.06 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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