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The first biography of the renegade journalist, a popular sixties antihero, charts his career, from his adventures with the Hell's Angels, to his falling out with Rolling Stone magazine, to his unrelenting drug use. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
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With over twenty black and white photographs, eight new imaginative and colorful images from Ralph Steadman, and a new introduction by the author, this third edition of Fear and Loathing, the first biography of "Gonzo journalist" and American legend Hunter S. Thompson, is still a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time.To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the 60s, to participating in wild orgies and getting his nose broken while chronicling life with the Hell's Angels, to founding the Freak Power Party and running for sheriff of Aspen in 1970. A virtual icon, Thompson has regularly trashed the prime directives of reporting accuracy and objectivity yet nonetheless always produces some of the sharpest political and cultural analysis around. Surrounded by submachine guns, fistfuls of colorful pills, and the ubiquitous Wild Turkey, Thompson careens through his life and career, unfolded here for the first time in all its decadance.
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