Description
The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas” — the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta used to be famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the true-life model for Hunter S. Thompson’s “Dr. Gonzo” a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life at the edge.
In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us in the back of the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the past due sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both within the courtroom and at the barricades. Here are the brazen games of “chicken” Acosta played against the Anglo legal established order; battles fought with bombs in addition to writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is immediately a very powerful political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.