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Fear and Loathing in America
The Brutal Odyssey Of An Outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976
Hunter S. Thompson4.2
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An astonishing volume of private correspondence, and a critically acclaimed follow-up to The Proud Highway, shows Hunter S. Thompson as brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, the 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.
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"A vital, deliriously erratic force in journalism…Reading Hunter Thompson is like using gasoline for aftershave-bracing…These untidy letters are welcome, showing us as they do a great American original in his lair."
New York Times Book Review
"Thompson was after what F. Scott Fitzgerald called 'the high white note,' and this collection is a symphony of such celestial peaks of excitement, humor, and wisdom."
Entertainment Weekly
"What we have here is vintage Hunter S. Thompson, a literary orgy of wicked irreverence."
Boston Globe