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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Riding on the Edge: A Motorcycle Outlaw's Taleby: John Hall  List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.50 You Save: $8.50 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 629 EAN: 9780760332764 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0760332762 Label: Motorbooks Manufacturer: Motorbooks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: September 12, 2008 Publisher: Motorbooks Studio: Motorbooks Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Ride with author John Hall into the turbulent world of 1960s bike club culture, from the time he joined an upstart motorcycle club from Dixie, and rose to become 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, and a band of brothers whose outlandish behavior forged an all-American outlaw legend in the tradition of Jesse James, Doc Holliday, John Dillinger, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Outlaws yes, but outlaws as American as apple pie. Book Description: This is the story, outrageous but true, of John Hall, a Harley-riding hell raiser who founded the Pagans, a club the FBI called "the most violent criminal organization in America," and ended up in the Pennsylvania state penitentiary after a roadhouse brawl over a honky-tonk angel. Riding on the Edge describes John’s riotous ride through the tumultuous decade of the 1960s, doing his damnedest to die young and leave a good-looking corpse. And it tells how one man bucked the system, first as a hell-bent biker, and then as an ex-con with the chutzpah to challenge the state of Pennsylvania. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - riding on the edgewell written book couldnt put down ive read over 40 outlaw books this ranks in the top 5 Rating: - John Hall's a heck of a writerI'm not sure I can say that John Hall is a better writer than Hunter S. Thompson, as another reviewer has done, but he's in the general ballpark, which is saying a lot since I think Thompson was one of the finest American writers of the 20th century. This is one hell of a book. Rating:  - Fact and FictionIn 2006 John Hall's literary agent James Fitzgerald of New York contacted us about the book. At that time Fitzgerald was informed that John Hall in fact did not have authorization to write, print or publish any thing about the Pagan's MC. John Hall has never contacted the club at all to seek authorization. The book is interesting to read for the most part, however it is by no means a acurate and true account of the 1 1/2 years that John Hall was a member of the club. Not only is it an exageration ... Read More Rating: - Outstanding book!This is a very GOOD book, well written and well documented.The style is even better than an other all-time icon, Hells Angels by H.Thompson.It is worth every euro I paid for it.As an european biker I get a better look at the history of 1%-America in years. Most of the publications were always about the HAMC and now more books are published about the other clubs:giving a more balanced look at these matters.Truly an outstanding piece of work. Rating: - Superb Effort"Riding on the Edge" is, IMHO, the finest work of 1%er biker literature on the stands today. Written by an Old School biker and original member of the Pagans MC, this is a thoughtful, respectful and captivating story of what it was like to be a 1960s motorcycle outlaw. Written by John Hall, today a professional journalist and academic, Hall's book eclipses Sonny Barger's very successful effort (Hell's Angel) and, when compared, makes a mockery of Ruben "Doc" Cavazo's recent book about ... Read More 
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