Title: The autobiography of a brown buffalo
First published: 1972
Description: Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.

Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
Subjects: Biography, Ethnic identity, History, Mexican Americans, Popular culture, West (u.s.), biography, Popular culture, united states, Political activists, Ethnicity
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
People: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Time periods: 20th century