Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

By: Oscar Zeta Acosta

Narrated by: Henry Levya

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer 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.

Critic reviews

"Immensely readable...A Chicano Manchild in the Promised Land."-- Publishers Weekly

"Acosta has entered counterculture folklore. This is the life story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems to be fragmenting around him."-- Saturday Review of Literature

"The most straightforward account of a Chicano's journey in search of a dream..." - The Los Angeles Times

May the word of Zeta awaken your inner Brown Buffalo

The origin story of a real life superhero who went on to become the voice of the voiceless.

Beautiful

The story is incredible, the performance is also quite good in general is just a great book to read.

very good listin

a very good look into the life and times of the samoan atterny from Hunter s. Thompson's books ant the struggle in his life and for his people.

manifest destiny

it's surreal being born in El Paso, and to currently live in the Colorado valleys where Oscar met Hunter.
a magical story of torment and displacement.
a stubborn search for everything, when none of it finally means anything

Garbage

This was recommended reading in Chicano studies there’s absolute no cultural value to this garbage . This does not represent Chicanos