About Chicago Rage by Ronald Schulz
Free Love, Drugs, Riots, and it’s all true! 1969 was a time of turmoil in US history as seen through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Ron, a high school dropout, exploring the emerging Counterculture after the assassination of Martin Luther King. It is a five-part memoir that takes you from Chicago’s underground culture to the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village, his recollection of the riots and his first interracial romance with Bonnie inviting him into the M-fer radical collective and his rejection as an outsider by the group, it speaks of the loves and losses, trials we all face, even today. And then Karen entered his life – a young run-a-way with an attitude as wild as his own and she shared his ambition to tear down Pig City.
From freedom to jail, Ron must re-evaluate his life’s direction and look at the world in a wider scope. His story may shock you, but it will also inspire you to face your life challenges with bold humor on your own terms.
Take an amazing journey through the memory of a man from another generation as he struggled to find his position in life–as most of the world is doing today.
This work is the first part of a series of memoirs detailing life-altering events, from the 1960s riots, arrests, jail, and time in the Madhouse. Soon to be published in the series are books that will follow his journey from organizing revolutionary groups to setting up communes in Wisconsin, then hitchhiking across Europe and Africa on a roundabout Buddhist pilgrimage to Nepal. Ronald’s books explore the gritty wilder side of life and romance that most people shrink from. Available on Amazon and elsewhere!
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Born in Chicago, Ronald Schulz grew up in the semi-rural suburb of Wood Dale. At fifteen he ran away to New Orleans, where he lived on Skid Row until betrayed by a priest. As a disaffected seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1969, Ronald took a massive dose of LSD while hitchhiking alone into the wide-open Western American scene in search of the counterculture. He later became involved in radical movements in New York and Chicago, including the SDS Days of Rage, where he was arrested and subjected to several months in a mental hospital. He made the most of it, joining the White Panthers and later a rural Wisconsin commune, which remained his home throughout the 1970s. In 1975 he hitchhiked across North Africa and the Middle East, spent time on a kibbutz, and worked at a copper mine in Israel’s Negev desert. Then on to India and Nepal, where he spent nine months studying Buddhism under Lama Yeshe. His life has been full of adventure, travel, and different jobs, including teaching English classes in Tokyo, construction work in Los Angeles, and mining in South Dakota and Colorado. Ronald has a BA in political science from the University of Washington, as well as certificates in memoir writing and teaching English as a second language. He has been to every continent and now lives in Seattle, writing a series of honest memoirs: Chicago Rage, Home at the Edge, and Spirit Quest 1969. Soon to be published are Party at the End of the Rainbow, about the Chicago White Panthers, and Teenage Runaway about running away to New Orleans at 15. They are coming out soon, with more to follow. Stay tuned!