Ride with author John Hall into the turbulent world of 1960s bike club culture, from his beginnings at an upstart motorcycle club to his rise to the Long Island chapter president of the Pagans, a club that the FBI called the most violent criminal organization in America. Follow him into the Pagan heartland of Pennsylvania where he fell in love, got in a roadhouse brawl over a honky-tonk angel, and eventually went to jail for takin care a club business. Now after a career as a journalist and college professor, he returns to the violent days of his youth and smashes up stereotypes like he once smashed up bars, resurrecting long-dead brothers in a style reminiscent of Jack Kerouac and Mark Twain. Hall presents them as they really were: hard living, hard loving, hard drinking, hard fighting rebels, but also hardworking, patriotic, loyal, and lovable characters. Outlaws, yes, but outlaws as American as apple pie.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Motorbooks International
ISBN-13
9780760341339
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111607938
Product Key Features
Book Title
Riding on the Edge: a Motorcycle Outlaw's Tale
Author
John Hall
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Motorcycles
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
153mm
Item Width
229mm
Item Weight
420g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John Hall
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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