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

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Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: A Memoir of the Sixties with Notes for Next Time

Osha Neumann is a prominent civil rights attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area. His book is a fantastic memoir of the intersection between 60s hippie culture and 60s radical culture, as seen from the vantage of an exceptionally perceptive and erudite attorney who has both achieved great 'straight' success AND stayed true to his roots.

Out of the dozens and dozens of books I have seen in my research for an upcoming documentary on Osha's friend, Alan Steinbach, MD (that deals, at least peripherally, with the legacy of the 60s) - this is by far the best!

I read the book in about a week over the winter break. There is much humor in it and there were times I put the book down to laugh. Much of the book feels uncensored and the author's reckoning with himself comes through again and again. The writing is beautiful - there's a Bob Dylan like quality to it, but even more raw and more political. This is a must read for anyone who lives a life driven by the desire to do good and to fight the good fight. It's medicine.

This book is both a juicy lyrical rendition of a passionate time and place and also, and even more rare, a thoughtful look back at what that time and place can teach us about the present.

This is an excellent well written book. I read it faster than i have read any book in many moons.

I't is autobiographical without being trivial. I've read many books about the 60's and the Lower East Side and the consequences of that period and place, but this one is the best.