{"product_id":"ringolevio-a-life-played-for-keeps-citadel-underground-9780806511689","title":"Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (Citadel Underground)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ringolevio\" is the memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers  the irreverent urban guerrillas anti masters and masters of street theater who made San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury a home  putting on Grateful Dead dances in Golden Gate Park  ladling out free stew to all comers in the parks Panhandle  and keeping the peace with the cops. While Keseys Merry Pranksters were off tripping the light fantastic  the Diggers were transforming the Haight from a seedy district of abandoned Victorian houses into an evanescent paradise on earth. For anyone who thinks that those were days only of peace  love and flower power  Ringolevio will be a revelation  as it evokes the gritty urban sensibility that supplied the backbone to the communitys free flights of fancy. Vastly entertaining  Ringolevio is at once high adventure  political screed  social history. and hyperbolic memoir. This classic traces the story of Emmett Grogan  a larger-than-life sixties legend of great controversy  from the streets of New York to the heights of the Haight. Citadel Undergrounds edition of Ringolevio features a new introducing by the actor Peter Coyote  one of Grogans oldest friends  a fellow Digger and a veteran of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. \"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 an Indian-inspired consciousness  was the original white light of the era. Emmett Grogan was the hippie warrior par excellence. He was also a junkie  amaniac  a gifted actor  a rebel hero  ...and above all a pain in the ass to all his friends. Ringolevio is half-brilliant\". -- Abbie Hoffman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275801813045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806511680","price":99.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806511689.jpg?v=1780515231","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ringolevio-a-life-played-for-keeps-citadel-underground-9780806511689","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}