Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's ...
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Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, from childhood friends to colleagues, to assistants who sat around the Woody Creek, Colorado, kitchen control room late at night when Thompson did most of his work. McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer-one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. The numbers 2008 are printing on the top edge of the page block, otherwise the book is as new. The seminal biography of the life and literary legacy of the legendary cultural icon, the late Hunter S. Thompson. In his journalism, he captured who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, the Kentucky Derby, or Hells' Angels. The book is bound in black half-cloth with gold boards, tight, solid and square, sharo corners, internals as new. Unclipped jacket has just faintly wrinkled heel, else fine. 428 pages. xvii, 428 p., 16 p. of plates. Includes bibliographical references and index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 2008, W. W. Norton & Company, New York.