Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

Author(s): Hunter S. Thompson

Biography/Memoir

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. 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 authors and 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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Provocative and revealing, this new collection covering Hunter's most infamous years, has sold over 10,000 in hardback. 'There are only two adjectives writers care about any more - "brilliant" and "outrageous" - and Hunter has a freehold on both of them' TOM WOLFE 'Very few editions of collected letters are worth reading from cover to cover, but this is one' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Hunter S. Thompson's books include Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Proud Highway, Better Than Sex, and the Rum Diary. A regular contributor to various national and international publications, Thompson now lives in a fortified compound near Aspen, Colorado

General Fields

  • : 9780747553458
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.514
  • : 01 October 2001
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hunter S. Thompson
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 070.92
  • : very good
  • : 784
  • : Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Press & journalism; Biography & autobiography: general; American history: postwar, from c 1945 -
  • : facsimiles, portraits