Fear and Loathing in America
The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976
The Gonzo Letters: Book #2
- By: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley & David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 32 hours 13 minutes
Description
This astonishing volume of private correspondence, acritically acclaimed follow-up to TheProud Highway, shows Hunter S.Thompson as brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. When that first book ofletters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it “deliriously entertaining,” Rolling Stone called it “brilliant beyond description,” and the New York Times celebratedits “wicked humor and bracing political conviction.”
Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, thesenever-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running forsheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathingin Las Vegas; twistingpolitical reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in thelandmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. To read Thompson’s dispatches fromthese years—addressed to the author’s friends, enemies, editors, and creditorsand such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read araw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotaleras in American history.
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The Proud Highway
By: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley & William J. Kennedy
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 27 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondenceof one of America’s most influential and incisive journalists—Hunter S.Thompson. In letters to a who’s who of luminaries, from Norman Mailer toCharles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez—not tomention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of... Read more »
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Fear and Loathing in America
By: Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley & David Halberstam
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 32 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This astonishing volume of private correspondence, acritically acclaimed follow-up to TheProud Highway, shows Hunter S.Thompson as brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. When that first book ofletters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it “deliriously entertaining,” Rolling Stone called it “brilliant beyond description,” and the New York Times... Read more »
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