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A novelette about a nihilistic young man from New York City, Going Down South depicts an isolated and apathetic way of navigating life and romance in a way that will resonate with most Millennials. When Jared Steinfarb decides that his life in Brooklyn has grown too dissolute, he moves in with an old friend from college who is studying to be a minister in Nashville, Tennessee. There, he meets Sylvia, an earnest Christian girl from the Midwest — she becomes an opportunity for his depravity to reach new depths, as Jared finds that his lecherous nature has followed him down south.

A full and poignant portrait of one of the geniuses of the 1960s counterculture. From the creation of the Yippies!; and the tumult of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests; to the humor and agony of the Chicago conspiracy trial; the scandal of Abbie's 1973 cocaine bust, and his years as a fugitive; to his final struggle with manic-depressive illness, this biography offers an intimate examination of the contradictions that make Abbie Hoffman such a compelling figure - with the information and affection only a brother could bring to the complexities of Abbie's life.