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Loading... Riding on the Edge: A Motorcycle Outlaw's Taleby John Hall
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In the 1960s John Hall, a Harley-riding hell raiser hooked up with the Pagans, a group of like-minded individuals who went on to become the largest outlaw motorcycle club on the East Coast. Hall ended up in prison where he earned several degrees. Now after a career as a journalist and college professor, he returns to the violent days of his youth and smashes up sterotypes no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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. .No library descriptions found. |
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