Born to Be Wild: The Rise of the American Motorcyclist
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1469622726 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Generally accurate, but dry Hoosier Daddy Reviewer Kizer beat me to it. This reads precisely like a doctoral thesis. Professor McBee clearly got access to back issues of Cycle, Motorcyclist, Easyriders and other enthusiast magazines as his primary sources. McBee takes an interesting topic and makes it dry and boring. It is, for the most part, accurate, although his misspells the Harley Electra Glide as "Electric Glide" and misspells the word "protester" throughout the book. He also leaves out a lot of interesting stuff that I remember. For example, when describing the outlaw gangs' support for the Vietnam War, he neglects to mention the preposterous suggestion by. A slight disappointment This book is highly detailed and the facts presented are accurate and well documented. Unfortunately it reads like doctoral dissertation and author used a style and vocabulary unsuited to the average reader. I would hard pressed to recommend this to anyone but serious students of social history.. is well written and well researched but it reads like an academic history that focuses on gender Rudy Martz The book is well written and well researched but it reads like an academic history that focuses on gender, race, and masculinity. I bought "Born to be Wild" after reading two other very entertaining books. The first, "Breaking the Code," is about the leader of the Hells Angels in Minnesota and the cop who investigated him. The second book, "You Gotta Be Dirty," is a history of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the Midwest. I was expecting "Born to be Wild" to be similar to the aforementioned books and was a tad disappointed.
Randy D. history and social history. . McBee is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University, where he teaches courses in recent U.S
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. 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. McBee's fascinating narrative of motorcycling's past and present reveals the biker as a crucial character in twentieth-century American life.. 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. In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California
A great book that is accessible to bikers and college American culture professors alike.--Pennsylvania Literary JournalFascinating, very well written, and full of interesting stories, facts and photos. Historians and pop-culture fans could also find Born to Be Wild is the best thing off two tires.--Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez. For anyone doing research on, or having a general interest in, the culture of motorcycles and their riders.--CHOICEA comprehensive work of cultural history told from the American road.--Wall Street JournalBikers, obviously, will rumble for this book, but they're not its only audience