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Hell's Angels (Penguin sociology & anthropology) (Paperback)

by Hunter S. Thompson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (Jan 1970)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140028013
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140028010
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,514 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars thompson proves his worth as writer not only mad man., 22 Oct 1998
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known as the king of gonzo, with a monstrous capacity for drugs, booze and craziness thompson's abitlity as a journalist is often forgotten. read the book and you will see that as a journalist thompson is amongst the best. as the majority of the press get caught up in the hysteria surrounding the outlaws, he remembers to stay objective, look at the facts and write the truth. he opens the group to the outsider, explains its origins, reasons for exisiting and what it means to a changing american society it refuses to be a part of. whatever you think about the man, you have to respect his writing. and this is as good as it gets.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Getting drunk and running amok amongst the worthy citizens, 4 Oct 2009
By E. Shaw "Kokoschka's_cat" (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews
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Hunter S Thompson depicts the rise of the phenomenon known as Hell's Angels from the early 1950s, when they were epitomised as lonely, misunderstood rebels in the film The Wild Ones, with a young Marlon Brando playing the lead, to the mid 1960s when their favourite occupation, according to the media, was terrorizing isolated backwoods American townships by getting drunk and running amok amongst the worthy citizens. Though this did happen occasionally, the `runs' of the gangs were usually more apt to involve violence amongst the groups themselves than towards outsiders. The whole ethos of the Hell's Angels and associated gangs such as the Booze Fighters and Satan's Slaves, to name just two, was to avoid getting slammed in jail. Since they rarely had jobs, incarceration involved expensive Bond Bails, which could tie up their finances for years. Yet this ran counter to their whole way of life, which was antithetical to society's norms. A mass of contradictions occurs when trying to figure out what they really stood for.

Thompson's account is a sobering one. The media talked up even minor incidents so that a whole set of assumptions applied to anyone on a trademark Harley Davidson bike. It became `known' that they were given to rapes and gangbangs, but it emerges from the statistics that there have been very few successful convictions for rape in the history of the motorcycle gang's activities. The explanation given is that they don't need to rape since a coterie of girls known as Mamas accompany them on their `runs' and are available for anyone. In any case, by the 1960s many Hell's Angels were married, with families, and wives came on the `runs' too. The female hierarchies are fascinating - wives had the power and the protection, anyone else was fair game.

Thompson liked these guys, and although this was written before he got his name for "Gonzo journalism", his partisanship is obvious right up until the very last section of the book, when he recounts how he was suddenly turned on by a gang of Hell's Angels in a bar and beaten bloody. Maybe they just got fed up of their pet journalist?

Much of the detail of their history is frankly depressing. Individually, too there is not much to distinguish them from the clichés they have embraced. Over the years they have evolved rather cleaner habits - and now there is even a Hell's Angels Chapter in Windsor, UK. What would our own dear Queen have to say?
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