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Grogan, Emmett

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Ballantine Books

Ringolevio

Little,Brown & Co

Ringolevi is the extraordinary story of Sixties urban guerrilla, Emmett Grogan. From the mean streets of Brooklyn to the Haight-Ashbury summer-of-love heyday, he and the Diggers were constantly organizing, protesting and partying, almost always at odds with the forces of the law. Blurring the lines between social history and romantic myth-making, Emmett Grogan takes the reader on an exhilarating adventure where the fight for liberty and personal freedom is always at the center of his crazy escapades. Ringolevio is manifesto, memoir and high adventure all rolled into one.

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rebel inc.

Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy. It’s a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly entertaining tale that takes a totally unexpected turn when Grogan washes up in sixties San Francisco and becomes a leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary. Above all, however, he struggles with himself. Ringolevio is an enigmatic portrait of a man and his times to set beside Hunter S. Thompson’s stories of fear and loathing, Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, or the recent Chronicles of Bob Dylan, who dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to the memory of Emmett Grogan.

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

NYRB Classics

ECHAPPEE

Ringolevio: Una vida vivida a tumba abierta

Pepitas de calabaza

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