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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007596713

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439165966

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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

An anthology of top-selected Rolling Stone articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.

Fear and Loathing in America

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439126363

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Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is 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.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307744067

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Also a major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

Generation of Swine

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439126899

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Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner. Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best—covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN—24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson—eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring.

The Great Shark Hunt

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451669251

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The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s.

The Rum Diary

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408814673

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The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

The sultry classic of a journalist's sordid life in Puerto Rico, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp

Fear and Loathing

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446698229

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Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

The "gonzo" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics. Reprint.

Gonzo

Author : Corey Seymour,Jann S. Wenner
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316026387

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Gonzo by Corey Seymour,Jann S. Wenner Pdf

Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing. Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed the Good Doctor's friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger to Ralph Steadman to Jack Nicholson to Jimmy Buffett to Pat Buchanan to Marilyn Manson and Thompson's two wives, son, and longtime personal assistant, more than 100 members of Thompson's inner circle bring into vivid focus the life of a man who was even more complicated, tormented, and talented than any previous portrait has shown. It's all here in its uncensored glory: the creative frenzies, the love affairs, the drugs and booze and guns and explosives and, ultimately, the tragic suicide. As Thompson was fond of saying, "Buy the ticket, take the ride."

Screwjack

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743215244

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Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of “Gonzo” journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson. What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that "we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again." Hunter S. Thompson’s most searing and unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting. Never before—and perhaps never since—has modern man’s melancholia been so vividly revealed in one powerful story.

An American Dream

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241340523

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An American Dream by Norman Mailer Pdf

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679602989

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.” This 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman’s original drawings, a new introduction by New York Times writer Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: “Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.”

Songs of the Doomed

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743240994

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Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

A collection of essays by Hunter Thompson that chart the high and low moments of his thirty-year career as a journalist

Hell's Angels

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307826619

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Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

Proud Highway

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307826626

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Proud Highway by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.