Book description
‘Well . . .yes, and here we go again’ Dr Hunter S. Thompson
Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of gonzo. From
Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating
portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak
Power in the Rockies, Nixon in ’68, McGovern in ’72, Fear and Loathing
at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith - and much
more. An indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity and
horse-sense.
‘Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for
a streaker at Queen Victoria’s funeral’ William F. Buckley
‘No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet
does it so hilariously. Now that the dust of the sixties has settled,
his hallucinated vision strikes one as having been the sanest’ Nelson
Algren Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) was an American journalist
widely regarded as the father of gonzo journalism.
