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Born to Be Wild - The Rise of the American Motorcyclist (Paperback)
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Born to Be Wild - The Rise of the American Motorcyclist (Paperback)
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In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister,
California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of
newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the
growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm.
In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker
emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding
motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the
motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this
shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture
since World War II. Along the way he examines the rebelliousness of
early riders of the 1940s and 1950s, riders' increasing connection
to violence and the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, the rich
urban bikers of the 1990s and 2000s, and the factors that gave rise
to a motorcycle rights movement. McBee's fascinating narrative of
motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial
character in twentieth-century American life.
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