Author : William McKeen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393061925
McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the inventor of Gonzo journalism--Hunter S. Thompson--as never before: one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but viewed journalism as his life's calling. 16 pages of photographs.
Author : William McKeen
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781781311547
‘This is the Great Red Shark of Hunter biographies… Read it of die’ Greg Palast Requesting his ashes blasted into the blue Colorado sky to drift slowly back over the crowd at his funeral was typical of the menacing humour of Hunter S. Thompson. The master of the Gonzo style, the sheer power of his supercharged prose in masterpieces like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell’s Angels, and The Great Shark Hunt confirmed them as classics of New Journalism. There was no one better at capturing America and its citizens, from the presidential campaign trail to the Hell’s Angels’ lair. Since the writer’s death in 2005, William McKeen has interviewed many of his associates who have never spoken about him before. The result is a hugely entertaining portrait that gets behind the drink and drugs to reveal a charismatic, complex figure. Outlaw Journalist is the definitive biography of this compelling American icon. ‘Superb… McKeen’s book brilliantly depicts how one of the fundamental tenets of New Journalism – putting the reporter at the centre of the story – eventually did Thompson in’ Literary Review ‘Well caught by William McKeen in an admirable book’ Independent
Author : William McKeen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393249115
"Gets it all in: the boozing and drugging…but also the intelligence, the loyalty, the inherent decency." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In Outlaw Journalist, the famous inventor of Gonzo journalism is portrayed as never before. Through in-depth interviews with Thompson’s associates, William McKeen gets behind the drinking and the drugs to show the man and the writer—one who was happy to be considered an outlaw and for whom the calling of journalism was life.
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439126364
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.
Author : William McKeen
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category :
ISBN : 1439126895
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.
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781934110775
In 1971, the outlandish originator of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) commandeered the international literary limelight with his best-selling, comic masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Following his 1966 debut Hell's Angels, Thompson displayed an uncanny flair for inserting himself into the epicenter of major sociopolitical events of our generation. His audacious, satirical, ranting screeds on American culture have been widely read and admired. Whether in books, essays, or collections of his correspondence, his raging and incisive voice and writing style are unmistakable. Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson is the first compilation of selected personal interviews that traces the trajectory of his prolific and much-publicized career. These engaging exchanges reveal Thompson's determination, self-indulgence, energy, outrageous wit, ire, and passions as he discusses his life and work. Beef Torrey is the editor of Conversations with Thomas McGuane and co-editor of the forthcoming Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Kevin Simonson has been published in SPIN, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, and Hustler.
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307826627
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.
Author : E. Jean Carroll
Publisher : Plume
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780452271296
Turbo-journalist Carroll delivers the shocking truth about the man she calls "the whoopie cushion under the seat of power". This unflinchingly decadent biography is one of the juiciest, sexiest, and funniest to come along in a long time. 16 pages of photos.
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307826635
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again--without leaving home--yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign--in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast. "[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes (Memorable." --Los Angeles Daily News "What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to (.[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure (.In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson." --Richmond Times-Dispatch "While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate (. Thompson isn't afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out (.He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target." --Tulsa World "This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath." --The Flint Journal
