title: Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcyle Gangs
author:  Hunter S. Thompson 
description: everything printee about the angels is pure fiction: mr. thompson re-creates the transformation: hoisted on the sholders of fantasy by the awesome power of the press, an almost defunct motocycle club was transformed into dillinger sytle villians
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  Hell's Angels
  
  A Strange and Terrible Saga
  
  by Hunter S. Thompson
  
  a.b.e-book v3.0 / Notes at EOF
  
  Text: 12pt Times Roman
  
  * Footnotes: 10pt Times Roman
  
  Quotes in text: 10pt Arial
  
  Back Cover:
  
  The barbarians are no longer at the city gates. . . they are in the city! And
  Hunter S. Thompson, America's most brazen and ballsy journalist, tells their
  story as no one else can!
  
  A close view of a world most of us would never dare encounter.
  
  \-- The New York Times Book Review
  
  For all its uninhibited tone and its sardonic humor Thompson's book is a
  thoughtful piece of work. . . He was not gulled by their self-conscious shock
  tactics or the mountebank obscenities they practice in public.
  
  \-- The New Yorker
  
  Hunter S. Thompson is a freelance writer from San Francisco, Aspen, and points
  east. His research on the Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close
  association with the outlaws -- riding, loafing, plotting, and eventually
  being stomped. A native of Louisville, Ken