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The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings, And Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, The Bush Doctrine, And The Downward Spiral Of Dumbness, Modern History From The ESPN. COM Sports Desk

Hunter S. Thompson

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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Hunter S. Thompson

America, with all its warts, lies naked under the laser-like scrutiny of legendary outlaw journalist and brilliant reporter Hunter S. Thompson. Fearlessly, he hurls himself into each assignment, gouges out the truth, then returns with a fresh story no one else on earth could write. From Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, hippies to himself, Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s. Thompson is a rebel and an artist, and we are all richer for it.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2003, 1979

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Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Hunter S. Thompson

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The Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

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Fear And Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

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Screwjack and Other Stories

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson; Douglas Brinkley

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Dias De Ron

Hunter S. Thompson; Nora Watson

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Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie

Hunter S. Thompson

America's greatest gonzo hits the hustings in this hilarious and timely report on last year's hideous race for the White House. The inimitable Thompson takes us on his special brand of a surreal campaign swing--and relives the lowlights, oddities, screwups, and the peculiarly telling moments that define a man and his longings. Thompson is the bestselling author of Generation of Swine.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1994

Fear and Loathing in America

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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson

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Other editions: Softcover - 1996

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Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dr

Hunter S. Thompson

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The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel

Hunter S. Thompson

The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way...do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other -- that kept me going." The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit." Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years -- before Castro, before JFK, before civil rights & moonwalks & flower power & Vietnam & protests & even before drugs -- but the San Juan Daily News was a vortex & a snakepit of all the corrupt new schemes & plots & greedmongers who swarmed in. Paul Kemp, The Rum Diary's narrator, speaks for the unfocused angst of those times: "In a sense I was one of them -- more competent than some and more stable than others -- and in the years that carried that ragged banner I was seldom unemployed. Sometimes I worked for three newspapers at once. I wrote ad copy for new casinos and bowling alleys, I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. It was a greedy life and I was good at it. I made some interesting friends, had enough money to get around, and learned a lot about the world that I could never have learned in any other way.

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Other editions: 1998

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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967

Hunter S. Thompson; Douglas Brinkley

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of Americas 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.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Opens everywhere on May 22, 1998.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1989, 1972

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

Hunter S. Thompson

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompsons savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writers account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailers An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out." This twenty-fifth-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadmans original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved."The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Librarys seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72

Hunter S. Thompson

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1973

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3

Hunter S. Thompson

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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream Gonzo Papers

Hunter S. Thompson

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Songs of the Doomed: Too Many Decades, Small Ugly Lives More Notes from the Death of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

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Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s

Hunter S. Thompson

A running tally of the folly of the 80's, the decade known for men of "huge brains, small necks, weak muscles and fat wallets.." - NYT Book Review

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1988, Hardcover - 1988

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The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S. Thompson

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