Bibliograph

Riding on the edge, a motorcycle outlaw's tale, John Hall

Type

Label

Riding on the edge, a motorcycle outlaw's tale, John Hall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Riding on the edge

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

John Hall

Sub title

a motorcycle outlaw's tale

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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