(1936 – 1989) Visionary and surrcalist politician. After work with SNCC, Hoffman founded the Youth International Party (yippies) in 1966, which sought to replace “Amerika” or the “Pig Empire” with a mixture of anarchism, Marxist revindications of class and race, drugs and political theater. His activism led to his famous arrest and conviction as one of the Chicago Eight for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Hoffman went underground from 1974 to 1980, but re-emerged to political activity before his suicide. Works like Woodstock Nation and Steal this Book—a manual to living free convey a vivid sense of personality and politics in the 1960s.