CASE LOAD-MAXIMUM
by E. RICHARD JOHNSON
204 pages. Harper & Row. $5.95.
Abbie Hoffman, who had ample opportunity for observation, has concluded that "everyone in prison is writing something." Indeed, there is a tradition of prisoner-authors from John Bunyan and O. Henry to Nehru and Genet. Most of the current ones, including Eldridge Cleaver, the Berrigan brothers and Hoffman himself, have used prison time to work out polemical theories. A few, though, are nonpolitical convicts who are trying to write about what they know best—crime. By far the most skillful is E. (for Emil)...
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