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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone By Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S Thompson


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Showcases the evolution of Hunter S Thompson, a writer, through his work at the Rolling Stone magazine that he helped to put on the map. This title offers an inside glimpse at the rollicking spectacle of this writer at his peak, delivering his career bests to the editor of the magazine that became his literary home.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Summary

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S Thompson

'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances: firing wildly into the cactus from a car full of drugs' Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S.Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. They show how Thompson's Rolling Stone writing, when taken as a whole, forms an extended, allusive autobiography of the writer himself as he pursues his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of the American Dream. From Thompson's first piece for Rolling Stone - the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform - to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, with plenty of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, Muhammad Ali, and Bill Clinton woven in along the way, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone presents the very best of his work, newly edited and with a bonus of selected correspondence between Wenner and Thompson. The result is a vital inside glimpse at the rollicking spectacle of a writer at his peak, delivering his career bests to the editor of the magazine that became his literary home

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Reviews

Angry, prophetic, full of vitality and enormously funny [Praise for Kingdom of Fear] * Guardian *
Absolutely brilliant ... Hunter S. Thompson has more fire and righteous outrage than most journalists half his age. Hard truths about America conveyed with tremendous wit [Praise for Kingdom of Fear] -- Eric Schlosser, author of FAST FOOD NATION
The fear and loathing have never seemed more apt... he's still raging against the machine [Praise for Kingdom of Fear] * Literary Review *
Fantastic... I don't think anyone else in print has called George Bush a whore beast [Praise for Kingdom of Fear] * Newsnight Review *

About Hunter S Thompson

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 and Kingdom of Fear. He died in February 2005

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GOR004813754
9781846145902
1846145902
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S Thompson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20111103
592
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