Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman & The Countercultural Revolustion In America,New

In The Tradition Of Edie, The Oral Biography Of Edie Sedgwick, Steal This Dream Is A Captivating Rollercoaster Ride Of An Oral Biography Of Abbie Hoffman And The Sixties, Told By Over Two Hundred Of Those Who Demonstrated, Protested, And Lived Through Those Tumultuous Years.Abbie Hoffman Was At The Center Of Most Of The Political And Social Tumult Of The Sixties, As A Participant, Disciple, Instigator, Leader, And Dissident. He Helped Fight For Civil Rights In The South, Organized On Behalf Of The Poor In New York City, Was A Leader Of The Flower Power Generation In Haightashbury In San Francisco, And Was One Of The Most Vocal And Visible Counterculture Guerrillas In The Fight Against The War In Vietnam. He Created Chaos On Wall Street, Experimented With Psychedelics, Hashish, Speed, Cocaine, And Free Love, Planned Beins, Attempted To 'Levitate' The Pentagon, Helped To Disrupt The Democratic Convention In Chicago, And Was One Of The Forces Behind Woodstock. A Genius At Exploiting And Manipulating The Media, And Through Them, Inspiring A Counterculture Across The Country And Throughout The Decade, Abbie Was The Most Famous Hippie And Revolutionary Of Modern Times.A Fastpaced And Utterly Compelling Oral History Told By The People Abbie Worked With, For, And Againstfrom Tom Hayden And Jerry Rubin To Paul Krassner And Timothy Learysteal This Dream Is The Finest Social History Of The Sixties Yet Written.