Ringolevio : a life played for keeps
By: by Emmett Grogan ; introduction by Peter Coyote
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books; NYRB Classics; New York Review of Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781590172865
Subjects: Grogan, Emmett; Radicals -- United States -- Biography; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1972.