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Did it! : from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary / written by Pat Thomas ; yipped by Kathy Wolf ; zapped by Jacob Covey.

Title
Did it! : from yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary / written by Pat Thomas ; yipped by Kathy Wolf ; zapped by Jacob Covey.
Author
Thomas, Patrick O., 1964-
Publication
Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Wolf, Kathy
  • Covey, Jacob
Description
xi, 253 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm
Summary
"This overstuffed book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin -- co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era -- but an overstuffed chronicle of Rubin's life (and ours) through those tumultuous times, including correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John & Yoko, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. Thomas interviewed more than 75 of Rubin's friends, foes, and comrades including Chicago 8 defendants, participants in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Paul Krassner, Judy Gumbo, John Sinclair, Rennie Davis, and many others. It reveals Rubin's and the Yippies' historical yet bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era, and explores the often-misunderstood relationship between Rubin and his partner-in-crime Hoffman, with new insights into their Yippie vs. Yuppie debates."--Publisher's website.
Alternative Title
  • From yippie to yuppie : Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
  • Jerry Rubin, an American revolutionary
  • D¡d ¡t!
Subject
  • Rubin, Jerry
  • Rubin, Jerry > Pictorial works
  • 1900-1999
  • Radicals > United States > Biography
  • Political activists > United States > Biography
  • Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century
  • Counterculture
  • Political activists
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • Pictorial works
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Growing up -- The making of a revolutionary -- Abbie -- Levitating the Pentagon -- The birth of yippie -- Chicago '68 -- The trial -- Fat radicals living off the system -- Christ, you know it ain't easy : the ballad of John & Yoko, Rubin & Sinclair & Peel & Weberman & Dylan -- The dream is over : the end of the movement -- It's the beginning of a new age -- Yuppie -- Yippie vs. yuppie -- Last days -- Jerry's legacy.
ISBN
  • 9781606998922
  • 1606998927
OCLC
  • 907140184
  • SCSB-11205474
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library