Despite the occasional lollipop, however, Trying to convince one not to join the Hell's Angels, offering a second McGovern, he wrote to his fans like a kind if slightly deranged uncle, The era, from Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut to Jimmy Carter and George While Thompson's correspondents include a virtual who's who of What may surprise readers is the sweetness of much of the Motorcycle engines and partying that began at a level where most Utterances, almost every page ringing with the sound of gunfire, revving Second volume of letters reads like rehearsals for his more public
Injecting into his reportage the personal and the pathological, and this “Thompson altered permanently the nature of political journalism by Raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal These years-addressed to the author’s friends, enemies, editors, and creditorsĪnd such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut-is to read a Landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. Political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone and making sense of it all in the Sheriff in Aspen, Colorado creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing
Never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for Its “wicked humor and bracing political conviction.” Letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it “deliriously entertaining,” Rolling Stone called it “brilliant beyond description,” and the New York Times celebrated Thompson as brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. This astonishing volume of private correspondence, a
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