Up Against the Wall Motherf***er: A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008. 222 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a 'street gang with an analysis.' Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in '60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the Motherfuckers, who influenced the Yippies and members of SDS; makes vivid the art, music, and politics of the era; and reveals the colorful, often deeply strange, personalities that gave the movement its momentum." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface; Exiles; Secrets and Catastrophes; The Lower East Side; Taking the Plunge; Sacrilege; Ben Morea and the Founding of the Motherfuckers; Armed Love; Breaking the Moral Callus; The Liberation of Fantasy; Chicago and the Fillmore East; Endgame; New Mexico; After the Revolution That Didn't Happen, Life Goes On; Todd Gitlin and I -- A Sixties Flashback; My Sixties Problem; The Pursuit of Truth as an Unveiling; The Promise of Happiness; A Hideous Rationality; Truth with a Capital T; The Color of Reason; And the Minotaur Mooed; Notes.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.