The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
by Travis Culley
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Book Summary Information
Author: Travis CulleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-08-13
ISBN: 0375760245
Number of pages: 324
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Reviews of The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Book Review: OK read. Self serving crap, ho hum
Summary: 3 Stars
Bike messengering is quickly becoming an obsolete job thanks to the internet. Nice to see one person's account of the scene back in it's hayday. A little self serving at times but an enjoyable read non the less.
Summary of The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Travis Hugh Culley went to Chicago to make his name in its thriving theater scene, yet found in his day job a sense of community and fulfillment-and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists-that he encountered nowhere else.In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us inside the heart and soul of an American urban icon: the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and those of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society-from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege-yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside.
Culley's voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic-a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclist's life on the street.
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