 Cover of Steal this Book Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman in 1970 and published in 1971. It includes advice on such topics as growing marijuana, starting a pirate radio station, living in a commune, stealing food, shoplifting, stealing credit cards, preparing a legal defense, making pipe bombs, and obtaining a free buffalo from the U.S. Department of the Interior. It discusses various tactics of fighting as well as giving a detailed list of affordable and easy ways to find weapons and armour that can be used in the event of a confrontation with law enforcement. The book advocates rebelling against authority in all forms, governmental and corporate. Cover of Steal this Book by Abbie Hoffman. ...
Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a self-identified communo-anarchist,[1] social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing...
A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ...
The term pirate radio usually refers to illegal or unregulated radio broadcasting. ...
A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ...
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Credit card fraud is a kind of fraud where a merchant (business, service provider, seller, etc. ...
In most litigation under the common law adversarial system the defendant, perhaps with the assistance of counsel, may allege or present defenses (or defences) in order to avoid liability, civil or criminal. ...
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The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally owned land. ...
The book's reflexive title is a classic example of Yippie culture jamming. Many bookstores refused to carry the book, because some patrons followed the advice of the book's title. [1] A self-referential book is a book that refers directly to itself. ...
The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on Hippies) was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967. ...
Culture jamming is the act of transforming existing mass media to produce commentary about itself, using the original mediums communication method. ...
As the book ages, the specific information it contains has become largely obsolete, but the book captures the yippie zeitgeist. The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on Hippies) was a highly theatrical political party established in the United States in 1967. ...
The city of Berlin is seen as a Zeitgeist Metropolis[1] Look up Zeitgeist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
On the success of the book, Hoffman was quoted as saying, "It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List." Hoffman would not respond to accusations that he had plagiarized the book, as published in a detailed article in Rolling Stone Magazine (No. 92, 10 September 1971), entitled "How Abbie Hoffman Won My Heart and Stole 'Steal This Book'." This article is about the magazine. ...
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Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...
References in popular culture
Mona Simpson, hippie mother of Homer Simpson, is seen reading Steal This Book in an episode of The Simpsons. In addition, Steal This Book is one of the banned books seen during a discussion in Bart Simpson's classroom in the Simpsons episode "The PTA Disbands". This article is about a character from the Simpsons. ...
Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...
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Bart and his sister Lisa as news anchors. ...
Another Simpsons Clip Show is an episode from the sixth season of The Simpsons. ...
Both The Coup and System of a Down released CDs titled Steal this Album in reference to this book. The band The Suicide Machines released a record called Steal This Record. The Coup is a hip-hop group based in Oakland, California. ...
System of a Down (also referred to as System or abbreviated as SOAD) is a four-piece, Grammy-award winning band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California. ...
Steal This Album! is the name of an album released by System of a Down. ...
The Suicide Machines were an American punk rock band formed in 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in 2006. ...
The BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay made a series of documentary films about pirating and downloading movies called Steal This Film. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. ...
The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is an Internet site that bills itself as the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker and also serves as an index for . ...
Copyright infringement of audio-visual works, often referred to as piracy, occurs when unauthorized copies are made of music, movies and similar works. ...
Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. ...
The website for the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has a series of articles called Steal this Hook!. A footnote explains that Hoffman's book has nothing to do with Dungeons & Dragons, but that they stole the title anyway. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Gygaxs company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). ...
In episode 205 "That Was Then, This Is Dumb" of the animated television show Daria, Jake Morgendorffer talks to himself in a mirror, saying "Once you could fit all your worldly possessions into a backpack. Pair of jeans, a few T-shirts, a copy of Steal This Book." Daria is an American animated television series that aired from 1997 to 2002 and was created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn for MTV. A spin-off of MTVs Beavis and Butt-head, Daria also became something of a cultural icon. ...
Jake Morgendorffer is a fictional animated character who featured regularly in the MTV television show, Daria. ...
In the late 1990s, Steal This Radio, a pirate radio station, operated at 88.7 FM in the Lower East Side of New York City. The station shut down in 1998.[2][3] The term pirate radio usually refers to illegal or unregulated radio broadcasting. ...
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In 1999, Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo co-authored a self-help parody titled Feel This Book. Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. ...
Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ...
John Mendenhall compiled two collections of copyright-free clip art titled Scan This Book (1991) and Scan This Book Two (1996).
In 2000, Robert Greenwald directed a film based on Abbie Hoffman's life titled Steal This Movie, starring Vincent D'Onofrio as Hoffman. Robert Greenwald Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American film director and political activist. ...
Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. ...
Vincent Phillip DOnofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and producer. ...
As of 2006, the composition of a Wiki-based version of this work for a new generation was started. The project has been named Steal This Wiki. An alpha version of the final product was compiled and released on July 4, 2007. is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
In 2007 the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company sent out a book of coupons called Eat This Book. Ben and Jerrys factory in Waterbury, Vermont Ben and Jerrys is a brand of ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerrys Homemade, Inc. ...
Bibliographical data Steal This Book - Written by Abbie Hoffman
- "Co-conspirator": Izack Haber
- "Accessories after the fact": Tom Forcade and Bert Cohen
- Published by Pirate Editions (New York)
- Distributed by Grove Press
- Year of publication: 1971
- 308 pages +xii, illustrations, bibliography[4]
25th anniversary edition - ISBN 1-56858-053-3 Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1951. ...
References - ^ Brate, Adam Technomanifestos, chapter 8. Texere, June 2002.
- ^ http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/1203/
- ^ http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S38/S38.STR.html
- ^ CATNYP: New York Public Library online catalog
See also Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. ...
Poster for Man on the Moon (1999), a biopic A biographical picture— often shortened to biopic— is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. ...
Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a self-identified communo-anarchist,[1] social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing...
Steal This Album! is an album by System of a Down. ...
System of a Down (also referred to as System or abbreviated as SOAD) is a four-piece, Grammy-award winning band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California. ...
Steal This Album! is the name of an album released by System of a Down. ...
The Coup is a hip-hop group based in Oakland, California. ...
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