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Nihilism on the Highway with the War Fighters Motorcycle Club Veteran Bikers

The Untold Story

By (author) Edward Scarr
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States
Published: 27th Sep 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 11mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN-10: 1433155060
ISBN-13: 9781433155062
Barcode No: 9781433155062
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This book tells the untold story of Australia's veteran bikers. Like other motorcycle clubs, the Australian War Fighters (pseudonym) are a fringe-dwelling subculture that provokes strong opinions. Newspaper editors have been salivating over motorcycle club imagery since the subculture emerged in California in the middle of the twentieth century. Motorcycle clubs remain the subject of persisting 'moral panics' in Australia and have been the subject of successive crackdowns, police operations, and hard-hitting legislation aimed at driving them out of existence. The War Fighters operate on the periphery of the hard-core one percent element of the subculture. While they enjoy the notoriety of looking mean, the War Fighters do significant charity work, and the seemingly bizarre combination of outlaw biker subculture aesthetic with raising money for local hospitals means these men enjoy the paradox of looking bad while doing good. Drawing on sociological research Edward Scarr tells the true story of how and why the veteran motorcycle club subculture came to be. What follows is an ultimately hopeful story of redemption from despair and the salvation of lives that had been all but given up on.

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