Ringolevio : a life played for keeps / Emmett Grogan ; introduction by Peter Coyote.
2008
CT275.G7784 A3 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Ringolevio : a life played for keeps / Emmett Grogan ; introduction by Peter Coyote.
Author
Grogan, Emmett.
ISBN
9781590172865 (alk. paper)
1590172868 (alk. paper)
1590172868 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : New York Review Books, [2008?]
Language
English
Description
ix, 498 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Call Number
CT275.G7784 A3 2008
Summary
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, later washing up in sixties San Francisco and becoming 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. 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.
Note
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1972.
Series
New York Review Books classics.
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