The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power

By (author): "Travis Hugh Culley"
Publish Date: 2001
The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
ISBN0375760245
ISBN139780375760242
AsinThe Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Original titleThe 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.