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WOODSTOCK NATION : A TALK-ROCK ALBUM
By Abbie Hoffman
Published by Vintage Books / Random House New York 1969 fifth printing
This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 154 pages with different coloured pages also lots of color & black and white photographs and illustrations.
CONTENTS
1. FOREPLAY
2. LANDING A MAN ON THE EARTH WITHOUT THE HELP OF NORMAN MAILER
3. THORNS OF THE FLOWER CHILDREN
4. 1/2 OF ELVIS PRESLEY
5. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT
6. HOW TWA, BEVO FRANCIS, CHE GUEVARA, AND THE YIPPIES CONSPIRED TO CROSS STATE LINES TO COMMIT CAMPUS RIOTS
7. MOONSHINE
8. CHE'S LAST LETTER
9. FUCK THE FLAG
10. DEATH TO THE PIGS WHO INVADE OUR LANDS
11. TO ANITA
12. OUTLINE YIPPIE! MOVIE
13. FREE JOHN SINCLAIR
14. THE GREAT GRASS FAMINE
15. WOODSTOCK OR BUST
16. THE HARD RAIN'S ALREADY FALLIN
17. TRIAL OF THE WOODSTOCK FOUR
18. SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MONSTER
19. POWER TO THE WOODSTOCK NATION
20. SELLING IT LIKE IT IS
21. NIGHTMARE OR UTOPIA?
22. AIN'T YOU GLAD IT'S THERE, SWEETIE
23. DEAR JACK
24. SURVIVAL
25. DOWN ON ME AND JANIS JOPLIN
26. TALK-ROCK: THE WHO VS. THE WHAT
27. THE GREAT RIP-OFF
28. THE SINCLAIR HOSPITAL
29. BAD ACID OR BAD ANNOUNCEMENTS?
30.THE BATTLE OFTHEMICS
31. ONE MORE TIME, BABY
32. BIOGRAPHY
REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT
The Book that earned ABBIE HOFFMAN a 5 year prison term at the CHICAGO CONSPIRACY TRAIL
By Free
Cover Photograph by Richard Avedon
Published by The Dial Press New York , 1970 Eleventh printing
This book is a soft cover in fine condition with 231 pages with black and white photographs and illustrations & diagrams.
Historians will have to assess the Revolution. It is now impossible to tell how large it is or where it is heading . . . beneath the outrageous satire is a fanatic dedication to turn this society upside down. — National Observer
FREE is a Yippie! leader who has been involved in the Movement for the past six years. He was active in the March on the Pentagon, the Columbia University Strike, and played a key role in the Battle of Chicago. He has been arrested approximately 25 times. Among his many aliases are George Meteskey and Abbie Hoffman
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT
REVOLUTION: THE HIGHEST TRIP OF ALL
THERE IS NO WAY TO RUN A REVOLUTION
2. THE RISING OF THE PENTAGON
flashback 1 — CENTRAL PARK BE-IN
flashback 2—THE CHARGE OF THE FLOWER BRIGADE
SKULLDIGGERY
PROPERTY IS THEFT
flashback 3— DRIVING THE MONEY CHANGERS FROM THE TEMPLE
flashback 4—TRIP TO DENTON & THE DIGGERS
flashback 5 —TWA NEVER GETS YOU THERE ON TIME
A GOOD AD FOR THE EXORCISM
HOW I LOST THE WAR AT THE PENTAGON
flashback 6—DEAN RUSK COMES TO TOWN
3. THE NEW NIGGERS
LETTER TO STOKELY
GARBAGE
TALKING IN MY SLEEP — AN EXERCISE IN SELF-CRITICISM
THE WHITENIGGERS
RUNAWAYS: THE SLAVE REVOLT
flashback 7—CALM BEFORE THE STORM
4. YIPPIE! — THE MEDIA MYTH
BLANK SPACE AS COMMUNICATION
TV TRIP AFTER KING GOT IT
THE NIGHT THE RED SOX ATTACKED THE U.S. EMBASSY
APRIL 11, 2001
GETTING IT ALL OUT THERE (1)
GETTING IT ALL OUT THERE (again)
5. ON TO CHICAGO
FESTIVAL OF LIFE
THE YIPPIES ARE GOING TO CHICAGO
POSTSCRIPT
A NON-RESPONSE TO THE DOUBTING THOMASES
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
CREATING THE PERFECT MESS
THE NEW YORK TIMES & ENTERING THE MYTH
THE FESTIVAL BEGINS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1968
HUSTLING & MYTH MAKING
flashback 8 — TEARS AT SUNRISE
FIGURE & GROUND
KEY TO THE PUZZLE
PHOTOS
6. FREE IS THE REVOLUTION
YIPPIE! IS FREE!
THE FREE STORE
7. FREE ADVICE TO THE BROTHERS
MESSAGES TO THE BROTHERS (to be accepted or rejected)
ADVICE TO MY BLACK BROTHERS
PLANS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES
8. SOME PROPS USED
COPS EAT PIE (leaflet)
YIPPIE (leaflet)
YIPPIE (program)
9. EXTRA QUOTES, BITS & PIECES
10. EGO TRIPPING
LOVE & DOING YOUR THING
POOL HUSTLING & BRAGGING
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK OF GARBAGE
I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
EPILOGUE: LIFE AMONG THE DINOSAURS
12. THIS PART IS ABSOLUTELY FREE
REVIEW OF FUCK THE SYSTEM
FUCK THE SYSTEM
POSTSCRIPT.
MORE ABOUT == The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967. They employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for President in 1968, to mock the social status quo. They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian and anarchist youth movement of "symbolic politics". Since they were well known for street theater and politically themed pranks, many of the "old school" political left either ignored or denounced them. According to ABC News, "The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the 'Groucho Marxists'."
The Yippies had no formal membership or hierarchy. Abbie Hoffman, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Kurshan, and Paul Krassner founded the Yippies (according to his own account, Krassner coined the name) at a meeting in Abbie and Anita's New York flat on December 31, 1967. "If the press had created 'hippie,' could not we five hatch the 'yippie'?" Abbie Hoffman wrote. Other activists associated with the Yippies include Stew Albert, Ed Rosenthal, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Robin Morgan, Phil Ochs, Robert M. Ockene, William Kunstler, Jonah Raskin, Steve Conliff, John Sinclair, Dana Beal, Matthew Landy Steen, Judy Gumbo, Ben Masel, Tom Forcade, David Peel, Tuli Kupferberg, Jill Johnston, Daisy Deadhead and Bob Fass.
A Yippie flag was frequently seen at anti-war demonstrations. The flag had a black background with a five-pointed red star in the center, and a green marijuana cannabis leaf superimposed over it.
This flag is also mentioned in Hoffman's Steal This Book. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin became the most famous Yippies .
THE BEST OF ABBIE HOFFMAN : SELECTIONS FROM: REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT, WOODSTOCK NATION : STEAL THIS BOOK and other Writings
By Abbie Hoffman
Edited by Daniel Simon with the Author
FOREWORD by NORMAN MAILER
Published by Four Walls Eight Windows , New York
1989 FIRST EDITION
This book is a HARDCOVER in fine condition with black and white photographs.
The dust jacket is in near fine condition.
CONTENTS
DISCONTENTS
Foreword by Norman Mailer
Preface by Daniel Simon
PART ONE From REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT 1968
1. Revolution for the Hell of It
2. The Rising of the Pentagon
3. Talking in My Sleep — An Exercise in Self-Criticism
4. Yippie! — The Media Myth
5. On to Chicago (August 25-30, 1968)
6. Free Is the Revolution
7. Ego Tripping
8. Epilogue
PART TWO From WOODSTOCK NATION 1969
9. Foreplay
10. Landing a Man on the Earth Without the Help of Norman Mailer
11. Thorns of the Flower Children
12. 1/2 of Elvis Presley
13. How TWA, Bevo Francis, Che Guevara, and the Yippies Conspired to Cross State Lines to Commit Campus Riots
14. Moonshine
THE BEST OF ABBIE HOFFMAN
15. Che's Last Letter
16. Fuck the Flag
17. Death to the Pigs Who Invade Our Lands
18. Free John Sinclair
19. Woodstock or Bust
20. Smack Dab in the Middle of the Monster
21. Power to the Woodstock Nation
22. Selling It Like It Is
23. Ain't You Glad It's There, Sweetie
24. Dear Jack
25. Survival
26. Down on Me and Janis Joplin
27. The Great Rip-Off
28. The Sinclair Hospital
PART THREE From STEAL THIS BOOK 1971
29. Steal This Author: Introduction
30. Free Food
31. Free Clothing & Furniture
32. Free Transportation
33. Free Land
34. Free Housing
35. Free Education
36. Free Medical Care
37. Free Communication
38. Free Play
39. Free Money
40. Free Dope
41. Assorted Freebies
42. Tell It All, Brothers and Sisters
43. Guerrilla Broadcasting
44. Demonstrations
45. Trashing
46. People's Chemistry
47. First Aid for Street Fighters
48. Hip-Pocket Law
49. Steal Now, Pay Never
50. Monkey Warfare
51. Piece Now
52. The Underground
PART FOUR NEW WRITINGS 1981- 1988
53. The Great St. Lawrence River War (1981)
54. The Crime of Punishment (1981)
55. How to Fight City Hall (1984)
56. Where Do We Go from Here? (1985)
57. The Young Have to Be There (1986)
58. Closing Argument (1987)
59. A Brief History of Student Activism (1987)
60. Reefer Madness (1987)
61. Reflections on Student Activism (1988)
PHOTOGRAPHS = FOLLOWING PAGE 185
1. Members of the extended Hoffman family with Abbie as a child.
2. Abbie at a demonstration in Washington, D .C.
3. The Chicago 8 co-defendants turn themselves in for arraignment.
4. Abbie turns on the crowd at Columbia University.
5. At a rally in New Haven, Abbie speaks out in defense of the Black Panthers.
6. Wearing a flag shirt, Abbie attends a press conference on censorship.
7. Barry Freed, a k.a. Abbot H. Hoffman on the run.
8. Abbie and Johanna Lawrenson.
9. Brothers Abbie and Jack.
10. Abbie fields questions on the legacy of 60s activism
FROM THE COVER === FEW AMERICANS can claim the honor of having remained an effective dissident voice for change for 30 years without ever cashing in their chips for the comfort of Wall Street, academia or elected office. When he died, on April 12, 1989, Abbie Hoffman was a committed environmentalist working as hard to force the clean-up of rivers and lakes in Pennsylvania and New York as he had on behalf of civil rights and civil liberties in the 1950s and 1960s. The Best of Abbie Hoffman spans Abbie's entire career, from his earliest to his latest writings. At every phase, somehow, he managed to write it all down. Today, his words stun us by their purity and crassness, their clowning bravado and utter seriousness. They express the pointed disrespect for the status quo, as well as the high aspirations for freedom and justice, of an entire generation. At no other time in our nation's history could they have been written.
"No on in America better represents the spirit of the 1960's" = The Los Angeles Times
This book is the autobiography of a bona fide American revolutionary. In fact, as I went through it, large parts of the sixties lit up like areas of a stage grand enough to hold an opera company. Of course, we all think we know the sixties. To people of my generation, and the generation after us, the sixties is a private decade, a good relative of a decade, the one we believe we know the way we believe we know Humphrey Bogart .. Yet reading this work, I came to decide that my piece of the sixties wasn't as large as I thought. If we were going to get into comparisons, Abbie lived it, I observed it; Abbie committed his life .. . === NORMAN MAILER, FROM THE FOREWORD
"Unless we become a society that judges itself not by the opportunities we provide for the most fortunate, but for the least fortunate, we fail at any chance we have at a truly democratic life."
—ABBIE HOFFMAN
MORE ABOUT ABBIE HOFFMAN === Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman arose to prominence in the 1960s, continued his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of the counterculture era.
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