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4 efiee ere ad meee wee A SER me ee eee Ue ee Re eld ee tee le 2 ABR DELS oat ane ORY ae WARY NY 100-161445 “AFTER THE REVOLUTION...That's right, after cause for me there's still a long way to go....’ "twoodstock Nation, ' complete with photos, drawings, multi-colored pages, comes out November 7, making it the + } » and probably the weirdest book on the Aquarian Expo. and firs “The Washington Post" newspaper, in its November 19, _ 1969 issue, on page Bl3, contained a book review of the subject's . vook "Woodstock Nation", by WILLIAM MC PHERSON, book editor - of "The Washington Post" entitled "Oh, Wow! Abbie Hoffman Lands on Earth" which stated in part as follows: : “on, wow! as the author of this book would say matia DR ray a ee sraam Waise a PF, Here is Random House, wedded to the mixed-media giant, Corporation of America, sheltering under its incredible umbrella both Daniel Boorstin, the guru of the consumer community, and Abbie Hoffman, the Harpo Marx of the Revolution, who claims to have written this remarkable little book in five days while lying upside down, stoned, on the floor of an unused office of his publisher. e aAin auayv \ t "Judging from the evidence, the claim is correct. ~ Woodstock Nation is a@ pastiche of rock lyrics, newspaper clippings, newsreels, quotations, from Mein Kampf, Walter Cronkite and various promotional brochures; a phony letter from Che Guevara and an authentic one to Attorney General Mitchelleethe whole liberally salted with those words that Tide Vwssw eae wsaw vs ew a ey Ae Mother used to wash your mouth out for using. "Tt 4s aboute-if such a word can be used in reference ~~ to this document~-the formation of a new community ( 'the first attempt to land a man on the earth') at last summer's ~ Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y. Dr. Boorstin's book, The -56-