"The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo" is an innovative look into the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author, and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta, best known for his volatile friendship with legendary journalist-provocateur, Hunter S. Thompson. The author of two groundbreaking autobiographical novels, Acosta's powerful literary voice, brash courtroom style and notorious revolutionary antics made him a revered figure within the Chicano movement, and offered one of the most brazen, frontal assaults on white supremacy seen at the time.