Maybe that's why he comes out of here "dishonest to a fault," while as late as 1976 Hubert Humphrey is the "rotten, truthless old freak." Reruns-and wearisome.Įlie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. Thompson talked football once with candidate Nixon, who wasn't just pretending to be a regular guy: he knew his stuff. What's interesting is the older stuff-short pieces mostly, more controlled (or less uncontrolled)-pre-Gonzo National Observer dispatches from South America and our own West (one each on hobos and Hemingway expose an otherwise masked sensibility). Thompson belongs in the same cultural reliquary as the Easy Rider, Tom Wolfe, and his new journalism. Get the idea? It wears thin, times have changed, and above all it's not so much funny as noisy. Down from his peak, Thompson's still playing anti-hero in his own journalistic shenanigans: freaking out on booze/acid/hash/speed/the works macing adversaries, bamboozling everyone else betting madly on whatever he's covering-Kentucky Derby to Democratic Primary, most recently the first Ali-Spinks bout then "lashing together" a story with the same old words (shitrain, geek), tricks (Raoul Duke, Sports Editor), excuses (but now we're off the point, unquote). or still, in artifacts from his 15-year-magazine oeuvre-including 100 pages of his Rolling Stone Watergate screed-and in patches of both sprees of Fear and Loathing (in Las Vegas and On the Campaign Trail '72). Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s.Cazart! It's Hunter Thompson again. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”-“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.
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