Square Dancing in the Ice Age: Underground Writings
New York: Putnam, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing (no statements as is correct for Putnam at that time). Fine in crisp dust jacket with short closed tear/ crease bottom rear panel. Hardcover. 242 pp. Collection of pieces, some never before published in complete form or published at all, by Abbie Hoffman, most from the time in the 1970s when he was America's most notorious fugitive radicals. The reader is given an indirect portrait of America from the volatile close of the Nixon years through the aimless "square dancing" of the Carter administration. The writings' subjects are wide spread---from Carter's inaugural Ball, a touching and mourning elegy to his father, an analysis of Jack Henry Abbott's career, the death of Elvis Presley, a tongue-in-cheek examination of cocaine use in Hollywood, meetings with ex-CIA agent Phillip Agee and with German guerrilla journalist Gunter Walraff, and more. Fine / very good. Item #E33962
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