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Ringolevio : A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan (2008, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101590172868
ISBN-139781590172865
eBay Product ID (ePID)65597117
Product Key Features
Book TitleRingolevio : Alife Played for Keeps
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Political Process / Political Advocacy, General, United States / 21st Century, Social Activists
Publication Year2008
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorEmmett Grogan
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-018625
Dewey Edition18
Reviews'one of my favourite books ... The Diggers were devoted to genuine egalitarianism ... this is their story as much as Grogan's and is one of the most fascinating books ever written about sixties counterculture', "The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground." Dennis Hopper "Of all those activists, Hopper thought the most interesting was the late Emmett Grogan, who ran the Diggers, a group that gave away food and clothing. Hopper thinks that Grogan''s romanticized autobiography, Ringolevio, is the best book dealing with the ''60s. The title was a New York street game 'of life and death.' 'Grogan thought that anybody who ever played that game would learn their position in life,' Hopper said. 'He was out of New York, studied film making with Antonioni. He was a jewel thief, a heroin addict and then came to San Francisco and started the Diggers. He had a lot of charisma.'" The San Francisco Chronicle "Emmett Grogan was a wonderful storyteller, and Ringolevio is a great book." Jerry Garcia "It wouldn't be surprising if Emmett Grogan'60s underground hero, prime mover of the Digger movement in San Franciscowere to come back to life. To know Grogana wild phenomenon who made the world his stange and could strut more in a month than Olivier played in a lifetimewas to entertain such possibilities." The Boston Globe "A kind of case study that reappraises the ''60s unapologetically but honestly, noting the mistakes and excesses, but also acknowledging some of the things that came from it that we should be proud of. Most people are afraid to admit how much fun it was." Peter Coyote Grogan was "the underground superstar of the counterculture, a young man whom everyone who was hip had heard of but whom no one could ever find…Wherever it was happening in the 1960's, Emmett Grogan was there." The New York Times "This autobiography is at once an amazing example of romantic self-mythologizing and a broad history of the hippie movement of the late nineteen-sixties…Mr. Grogan writes so clearly that he almost convinces us that the whole story could be true." The New Yorker "Grogan…who blends idealism with cold-blooded nastiness, sets forth in this playback not only his own life and timesbut also what it means to be on the other side of the barricades, away from the hearth where the bowls aren't always full…Grogan's chronicle of his life in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco…is most interesting." The New York Times Book Review "The autobiography of a sometime saint…an astonishing mass of raw experience. It blows myths, settles scores and leaves one pondering the invisible rules by which history and individuals impinge upon one another." Life "Superman of the Underground." The Times (London) "Emmett Grogan is the nom de plume of a youthful author whose autobiography Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps will likely cause a stir when it is published." Publishers Weekly A "lengthy, indulgent but intermittently fascinating autobiography of head Digger Emmett Grogan." The Washington Post "The story of the San Francisco Diggers, pioneers of the Haight-Ashbury scene, told engagingly by the head Digger himself." The San Francisco Chronicle "[The San Francisco Diggers] combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free. Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of artistic genius. Their free store, communications network of instant offset survival poetry, along with Indian-inspired consciousness, was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie, a maniac, a gifted actor, a rebel hero, …and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio [is] half-brilliant . " Abbie Hoffman, "The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground." Dennis Hopper "Of all those activists, Hopper thought the most interesting was the late Emmett Grogan, who ran the Diggers, a group that gave away food and clothing. Hopper thinks that Grogan's romanticized autobiography, Ringolevio, is the best book dealing with the '60s. The title was a New York street game 'of life and death.' 'Grogan thought that anybody who ever played that game would learn their position in life,' Hopper said. 'He was out of New York, studied film making with Antonioni. He was a jewel thief, a heroin addict and then came to San Francisco and started the Diggers. He had a lot of charisma.'" The San Francisco Chronicle "Emmett Grogan was a wonderful storyteller, andRingoleviois a great book." Jerry Garcia "It wouldn't be surprising if Emmett Grogan'60s underground hero, prime mover of the Digger movement in San Franciscowere to come back to life. To know Grogana wild phenomenon who made the world his stange and could strut more in a month than Olivier played in a lifetimewas to entertain such possibilities." The Boston Globe "A kind of case study that reappraises the '60s unapologetically but honestly, noting the mistakes and excesses, but also acknowledging some of the things that came from it that we should be proud of. Most people are afraid to admit how much fun it was." Peter Coyote Grogan was "the underground superstar of the counterculture, a young man whom everyone who was hip had heard of but whom no one could ever find…Wherever it was happening in the 1960's, Emmett Grogan was there." The New York Times "This autobiography is at once an amazing example of romantic self-mythologizing and a broad history of the hippie movement of the late nineteen-sixties…Mr. Grogan writes so clearly that he almost convinces us that the whole story could be true." The New Yorker "Grogan…who blends idealism with cold-blooded nastiness, sets forth in this playback not only his own life and timesbut also what it means to be on the other side of the barricades, away from the hearth where the bowls aren't always full…Grogan's chronicle of his life in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco…is most interesting." The New York Times Book Review "The autobiography of a sometime saint…an astonishing mass of raw experience. It blows myths, settles scores and leaves one pondering the invisible rules by which history and individuals impinge upon one another." Life "Superman of the Underground." The Times(London) "Emmett Grogan is thenom de plumeof a youthful author whose autobiographyRingolevio: A Life Played for Keepswill likely cause a stir when it is published." Publishers Weekly A "lengthy, indulgent but intermittently fascinating autobiography of head Digger Emmett Grogan." The Washington Post "The story of the San Francisco Diggers, pioneers of the Haight-Ashbury scene, told engagingly by the head Digger himself." The San Francisco Chronicle "[The San Francisco Diggers] combined Dada street theater with the revolutionary politics of free. Slum-alley saints, they lit up the period by spreading the poetry of love and anarchy with broad strokes of arti
Dewey Decimal301.2/2/0924 B
SynopsisRingolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s., 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, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy. It's a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly entertaining tale that takes a totally unexpected turn when Grogan washes up in sixties San Francisco and becomes 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. Above all, however, he struggles with himself. 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.
LC Classification NumberCT275.G7784A3 2008
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