All The Way Down - Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum

THE VIOLENT UNDERWORLD OF STREET GANGS

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Number: F 712

Publishing Year: 1962

Printing: First

Cover Price: 50c

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ALL THE WAY DOWN

is the story of five years spent in the vicious, appalling underworld of the juvenile street gangs. Vincent Riccio, ex-boxer with an M.A. degree from Columbia, was a street worker with the New York City Youth Board. The life he describes makes "West Side Story" sound like a kindergarten fairy tale.

This is the brutal, unadorned truth about a world where rival gangs fight "wars" with tire-chains, knives and guns; where the teen-age date is replaced by mass rape in the back seat of a stolen car; where murder is a status symbol and kids of 14 are hopelessly hooked on dope.

"Juvenile delinquency is going to be unbeatable in ten years," the Attorney General of the United States said recently. Vincent Riccio writes bitterly: "I hope it's not unbeatable now."

Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

 The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

BALLANTINE BOOKS U7087

NEW YORK, USA

1ST PAPERBACK PRINTING NOVEMBER 1967

CALIFORNIA, Labor Day weekend ... Early, with the ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners, and castoff one-night pads....Little Jesus, The Gimp, Blind Bob, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff Magoo and at least a hundred more....The menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway ... long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing at 90 miles an hour like a burst of dirty thunder ...

Hells's Angels

"Superb and Terrifying"

- Chicago Tribune