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Fear and Loathing in America

The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

By Hunter S. Thompson

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| Paperback | 9780684873169

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Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining";Continue

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction."

Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years -- addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut -- is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.

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  • Magnum enforcer

    Fear and Loathing in America: the Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist !968-1976 Hunter S Thompson Bloomsbury £20, pp756 Buy it at BOL Hunter S Thompson learnt how to write while straddling a motorbike among a pack of cursing, grunting, vroom-vroom ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Night of the Hunter

    Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-76 Hunter S Thompson, ed Douglas Brinkley 756pp, Bloomsbury £20 Buy it at BOL As a writer - bin all that "cultural icon" stuff, all the cartoon strips and cocaine blizzards ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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