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

About this book

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 fulfillmentand a brotherhood of like-minded individualiststhat 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 societyfrom the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilegeyet always resolutely exuberantly outside. Culleys voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetica Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclists life on the street.