The Hell's Angels. The name conjures up images of toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; of wild brawls and wild sex; of drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. Their lifestyle, we think, is horrifying, but it's also perversely fascinating, for there's an alluring freedom in such nihilism. Still, nobody knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel-an Angel like George Wethern, for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter. Until he found himself in reluctant service to the courts, Wethern was the quintessential Angel, tough as they come, one of the most important drug dealers on the West Coast-a man who loved bikes, fights, women, and drugs; a man who knew the deepest secrets of Angel life. Arrested, strung out on drugs, in despair, he testified in several major trials against Angel members-and then went into hiding. In A Wayward Angel, we witness killings, drug deals worth millions, "picnics" that are nothing short of orgies, the inner codes and inner workings of the club and its bizarre initiation rites. It is a vivid portrait of the chaos of postwar California, the awful early collision of the drug scene and the alienation of modern life, a story as American as can be. This is a powerful book, and not for the squeamish; but it's fascinating and important, terrifying because it's real.

A Wayward Angel the Full Story of the Hell's Angels By the Former Vice-President of the Oakland Chapter

Biographies & Memoirs

Wethern, George and Vincent Colnett

True Crime

Marek

Campbell's efforts to teach highschool English and creative writing to prison inmates provides insight into the bureaucracy that destroyed his idealism, his endurance of physical and psychological threats daily, and his relationship with his students

Dead man walking: Teaching in a maximum-security prison

Politics & Social Sciences

W. Reason Campbell

Social Sciences

Fine; Signed. See scans. Signed First edition and first printing [stated] of the softcover edition, which was issued simultaneously with the hardcover. New York: Richard Marek, 1978. Flat signed by Wilson on the ffep. Quarto, illustrated wraps, 125 pp. Fine condition; flawless. First edition of the seventh collection of cartoons by the master of the macabre, who has been called a hybrid of Charles Addams and Woody Allen - but that seems to me to fall well short of what he is. Born in 1930, Wilson gained fame for his uniquely chilling - yet funny - cartoons in Playboy Magazine. Wilson runs his gamut of topics and mood in this one. Scarce as the first and signed. L-32

And Then We'll Get Him

Literature & Fiction

Wilson,Gahan

Contemporary

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Jimmy Carter: The Man & The Myth

LASKY, Victor

Never Complain Never Explain The Story of Henry Ford II by Lasky Victor (Hardcover - 1981)

Never Complain Never Explain: The Story of Henry Ford II

Professionals & Academics