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Born in Chicago in 1952, Ronald grew up in the suburbs. 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 LSD while hitchhiking into the Western American counterculture. He also became involved in radical New York and Chicago movements, including the SDS Days of Rage. Arrested and subjected to several months in a mental hospital, he made the most of it, later joining a 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 he went to India and Nepal, where he studied Buddhism under Lama Yeshe for nine months. 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 lives in Seattle, writing a series of honest memoirs: Chicago Rage, Home at the Edge, Spirit Quest 1969, and Party at the Edge of the Rainbow. Teenage Runaway is coming out soon, with more to follow.
Reviewed by Foluso Falaye for Readers' Favorite
Following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, 17-year-old Ronald Schulz chose to leave home, establish a commune in Chicago, and join the Yippee revolution. Thus began his road trip, in which he encountered a variety of characters, including a sexually unsatisfied deacon, homosexual guys who gave assistance with a twist, both friendly and hostile police officers, financially dependent friends, helpful strangers, and whimsical lovers. Ronald Schulz, as a long-haired teenager, learned directly how people might evaluate individuals based on their looks. He also encountered people who treated him decently despite his appearance. Chicago Rage captures the reality of the rebellious young dropouts and runaways who protested against imagined and actual symbols of capitalism in Chicago during the US counterculture era from Ronald Schulz's point of view.
Ronald Schulz's unpredictable, risky, and captivating journey ignited in me a yearning for adventure as well as a desire to declutter my life and live freely without suffocating duties and money ambitions. The book captures you from the first page to the last with its wild, carefree characters, the exhilarating themes of new friendship and youthful love, and highly detailed and poetic prose that leaves one in a dreamy, mesmeric mood. Chicago Rage, like a well-preserved movie tape, gives readers a vivid picture of what life was like for young rebellious hippies who rejected conservative American society in the 1960s by depicting the complexities of their reality, such as open relationships, drug experimentation, and their strong sense of brotherhood, among other things. I wholeheartedly urge anyone who wants to read an exciting historical tale about hippies and revolting against unfair governance to pick up Chicago Rage: a memorable trip back in time, with heightened emotions and dangers.
