These usually include binge drinking, occasional but heavy drug use, routine violence, and regular expressions of perverse sexuality - including rape. The Hells Angels originated on March 17, 1948, in Fontana, California, when several small motorcycle clubs agreed to merge. The text features numerous chapters that discuss the predilections and standard activities of any motorcycle gang. Takedown: A Small-Town Cops Battle Against the Hells Angels and the. The Hell's Angels' particulars are noted so that they can be isolated from the larger phenomenon. Read Summary & Study Guide: The Rooster Bar by BookRags available from Rakuten. The Hell's Angels are the specific focus of the text but various other motorcycle gangs are mentioned, and some detail on several other gangs is provided.

The text seeks to answer basic questions by examining the origins of the motorcycle outlaw culture: their development over a period of perhaps twenty years their goals, aims, and activities and their significance in a larger social context.

Thompson flies with the angelsHell’s Angels, that isin this short work of nonfiction. About Hell’s Angels Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. The overarching theme of the book is the culture and priorities of motorcycle gangs. Bill Ray Life Pictures/Shutterstock Written By: Ben Cosgrove From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have held an ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe the gangster’s appetite for violence we envy and covet his radical freedom. As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend. The text is fundamentally a book-length journalistic report about the Hell's Angels, a motorcycle outlaw gang.

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