Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman & the Countercultural Revolustion in America

by Larry Sloman

Book Overview

In the tradition ofEdie,the oral biography of Edie Sedgwick,Steal This Dreamis a captivating roller-coaster ride of an oral biography of Abbie Hoffman and the sixties, told by over two hundred of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385411626
• ISBN13: 9780385411622
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Not Bad

This book is a pretty good overview Abbie Hoffman. It uses differing quotes to outline who and what he was about. For the real deal, however, readers should turns to Hoffman's own autobiography "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture".

Best Overview of the Sixties Ever Written??

Larry 'Ratso' Sloman has created a masterpiece with his oral biography of Abbie Hoffman. Not just the story of a fascinating, complex, American clown and activist, Steal This Dream is perhaps the first major book to put the sixties and seventies in perspective. Sloman knew Abbie and many of the other players intimately, and they open up to him with a forthrightness and honesty only possible now that the events are decades in the past. Hardly a homage to Hoffman, this excellent and highly readable book will make Hoffman worshippers cringe and Hoffman haters respectful. Larry Sloman deserves a Pulitzer.