This controversial biography has become a primary reference on the life and u0026 times of Phil Ochs, student activist, journalist, 60s rebel, social commentator, street socialist, poet, pop star and u0026 disturbed child of an America gone war and u0026 assassination-crazy. Altho his recordings were never bestsellers and u0026 there were times when he was more greatly appreciated in the UK, Canada and u0026 the 3rd World than at home, the late Philip David Ochs was one of the few American folksingers, aside from Woody Guthrie and u0026 Bob Dylan, who wrote and u0026 performed his own songs. This singing journalist's earliest ballads - championing civil rights, pacifism and u0026 revolution, attacking unemployment and u0026 US foreign policy - dealt with the romance of politics. Later ones celebrated the politics of romance. Fascinated by night, death, drowning, James Dean and u0026 Elvis Presley, Ochs was only 36 when, after surviving an attack in Africa followed by a psychotic break, he hanged himself in 1976. Eliot's sympathetic, powerful biography 1st appeared in paperback in 1979. Newer editions contain an epilog that updates information on Ochs's family and u0026 friends, discusses the FBI's 13-year surveillance of him and u0026 offers a revised discography.