Download or read book Ride the Serpent written by Jerry DePinto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride the Serpent is a story of life on the front lines in Mid America during the late 1960's for a group of Chicago area teenagers. Race riots, drugs, Vietnam War, the Chicago mob, suicides, muscle cars, sexual passion, the Democratic Convention riots, fight clubs, Hippies counter culture and all that teens face growing up. Amazingly the kids deal with all this in the spirit that defines youth. Ride the Serpent is fast paced filled with humor, history and romance. You will learn what life was like when America was growing up and socially throwing up.