Your cart is currently empty!
Guitar Army: Street Writings / Prison Writings by John Sinclair
$40.00
Guitar Army is comprised of articles and essays by John Sinclair, who managed the MC5 and led the White Panthers and the Rainbow People’s Party during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
1 in stock
Description
John Sinclair, manager of the notorious Detroit band MC5 and leader of the leftist revolutionary vanguard White Panther Party, is the still-charging embodiment of a dazzlingly optimistic time in which change felt necessary and possible.
Sinclair was the martyr of the original war on drugs, sentenced to ten years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints. Guitar Army is the iconographic book that proclaimed “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution” for young, revved-up readers in 1972. Its author was released from prison just three days after 15,000 people came to see John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Archie Shepp, Allen Ginsberg, and other musicians and leaders demand his freedom.
This is a first edition, paperback version, originally released in 1972 (released at the same time as the hardcover). It’s got some shelf wear, including a small ding to the upper right-hand corner of the front cover and a small scrape near the top of the back cover (see photos), but is otherwise in great vintage condition.
Additional information
| Title | Guitar Army: Street Writings / Prison Writings |
|---|---|
| Author Name | John Sinclair |
| Publisher | Douglas Book Corporation |
| Year | 1972 |
You may also like…
Related products
The Record Players: The Story of Dance Music Told by History’s Greatest DJs
$20.00
Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River by Ellen Meloy
$100.00
Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott
$45.00
The Reincarnations of Robert MacCready
$15.00
Instant Blues Harmonica for the “Musical Idiot”
$9.00