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.
- ISBN13 9780760341339
- Publish Date 7 October 2011 (first published 15 September 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
- Imprint Motorbooks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL https://murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/9780760341339