Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

Simon and Schuster, Dec 13, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 756 pages

In the second of a three-volume collection of the never-before-published letters of the creator of Gonzo journalism, one of the great literary icons of our time presents a truly raw, revolutionary, eyewitness account of the years from 1968 to 1976.

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User Review  - john.cooper - LibraryThing

When I was in college, my friends and I read Hunter S. Thompson because he was wild, fearless, funny, and took lots and lots of drugs. The mean streak that showed, say, in Fear and Loathing in Las ...

FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976

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A mad symphony that plays harmoniously on the discordant strings of Thompson's wild life.Thompson (The Rum Diary, 1998, etc.) is best known as the creator of Gonzo Journalism, and his letters display ...

Contents

• Private Beatings Whipped Like a Dog with the Whole World: ix
• 505: x
• The Fear and Loathing in America Honor Roll 731: 731
• Index 744: 744
• About the Author 757: 757

About the author

Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72, The Rum Diary, and Better than Sex. He died in 2005.

Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia on December 14, 1960. He received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1989. He was a professor at Tulane University, Princeton University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Hofstra University, and the University of New Orleans. In 2007, he became a professor at Rice University and the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is a commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. His first book, Jean Monnet: The Path to European Unity, was published in 1992. His other works include Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Cronkite, and Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America. He also wrote three books with historian Stephen E. Ambrose: The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Witness to History, and The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today. He has won several awards including the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for Driven Patriot and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist; Volume 2 of Fear and loathing letters, Hunter S. Thompson; Volume 2 of Gonzo letters, Hunter S. Thompson; Volume 2 of Thompson, Hunter S. Gonzo letters
• Author: Hunter S. Thompson
• Editor: Douglas Brinkley
• Contributor: David Halberstam
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2000
• ISBN: 068487315X, 9780684873152
• Length: 756 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures; Literary Collections / General