Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Political and Social Activist                          

Selected Works:

Books:

Fuck the System - pamphlet, 1967, printed under the pseudonym George Metesky
Available online
Revolution For the Hell of It - 1968, published under the pseudonym "Free"

Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial - 2005 reprint
Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album - 1969
Steal This Book - 1971 - Pirate Editions,
Steal This Book - 1996 reprint

Authorized online location:

Vote! A Record, A Dialogue, A Manifesto – Miami Beach, 1972 And Beyond - 1972, Warner Books, by Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Ed Sanders
To America With Love: Letters From the Underground - 1976 - by Hoffman and Anita Hoffman
To America With Love: Letters From the Underground - 2000
Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture - 1980
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman - 2000
Square Dancing in the Ice Age: Underground Writings - 1982
Steal This Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America - 1987 - by Hoffman and Jonathan Silvers
The Best of Abbie Hoffman - 1990, Four Walls Eight Windows
Preserving Disorder: The Faking of the President 1988 - 1999 - by Hoffman and Jonathan Silvers

Record:

Wake Up, America! Big Toe Records - 1970

Theatre Festival:

The Mary-Archie Theatre Company in Chicago started the "Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins" Theatre Festival in 1988. This festival runs every year for 3 consecutive days as a celebration of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969.

Interviews:

Viking Youth Power Hour interview Abbie during the Chicago Seven trials in Chicago 1969
Ken Jordan interview from January 1989, published in Reality Sandwich, May 2007

Documentary Films:

Growing Up in America  - 1988 - documentary on radical politics in the 1960s, First Run Features
Lord of the Universe  - 1974 - satirical documentary, winner of the DuPont-Columbia Award in broadcast journalism
My Name Is Abbie  - 1998 - Hoffman's first interview after seven years in hiding, Mystic Fire Video
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune  - 2010 - biographical documentary on the life and times of the singer-songwriter, First Run Features.                          

Mother Florence Schamberg
Father John Hoffman, three children, two younger siblings.
Wife Sheila Karklin, two children, divorced - 1966.

Died April 12, 1989, was caused by swallowing 150 Phenobarbital tablets.                          

Co-founded the Youth International Party - "Yippies".

B.A. in Psychology - 1959, Brandeis University                          

Arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale, originally known as  "Chicago Eight", until Bobby Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the "Chicago Seven".