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Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers, and assorted Middle Americans.

**National Bestseller **New York Times Notable Book “Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson Made into a major...

‘Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like “certain death” and “total failure” and the idea of “a doomed generation”. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes.’ Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to THE PROUD HIGHWAY. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend...

The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine...

Originally published in 1979, The Great Shark Hunt, the first volume of the bestselling 'Gonzo Papers' is Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work. These essays cover Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, offering brilliant commentary and outrageous humour, in signature Thompson style.

**National Bestseller **New York Times Notable Book “Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson Made into a major...

'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely contained violence; the Hell's Angels could...

The Hell’s Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic is an important revelation in the legacy of Thompson, with letters that survived precarious shipping and travel over decades, cloaked away from the public. “If Hell’s Angels hadn’t happened I never would have been able to write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or anything else . . . I felt like I got through a door just as it was closing,” Hunter told Paris Review.

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement, a style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972). The following is from a 1975 interview on gonzo journalism.

The third volume of the legendary “Gonzo Papers” recalls high and hideous moments in Hunter S. Thompson’s life and career—featuring a new introduction from comedian Tim Heidecker. With Thompson’s trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of...

The third volume of the legendary "Gonzo Papers" recalls high and hideous moments in Hunter S. Thompson's life and career--featuring a new introduction from comedian Tim Heidecker. With Thompson's trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed...

"Atenție, nelegiuiții pe două roți nu mai sunt la porțile orașului! Sunt chiar printre noi!" Așa ar fi sunat titlul vreunui ziar local din America anilor 1960 după ce Hell’s Angels ar fi dat năvală în oraș, doar ca să se distreze în stilul lor caracteristic: motoare, raiduri, femei, droguri și bere. Mituri, exagerări sau adevăruri îngrozitoare? Prejudecăți sau fapte dovedite? Ziariștii îi adorau pentru că le ofereau subiecte de scandal, iar publicul era fascinat de aerul lor amenințător și, într-un fel, misterios de răzvrătiți și antieroi neînțeleși.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory—from the famed political analyst and author of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail and Hell’s Angels “Memorable . . . [Thompson] delivers yet...

In sieben Abschweifungen über Hunter S. Thompson macht Bittermann auf weniger bekannte Seiten des bizarren Lebens Hunter S. Thompsons aufmerksam. Über Thompsons legendären Auftritt in der Conan O'Brien-Show, als aus der Talkshow eine absurde Waffenshow wurde, Hunter S. Thompson als hoffnungsloser Romantiker, über sein Fortleben in der populären Kultur, über das Wahlabenteuer in Aspen und die Geburt eines politischen Autors in Chicago im August 1968. Ein ungewöhnlicher, von Sympathie getragener Nachruf auf einen Skeptiker.

La obra más enloquecida de Hunter S. Thompson, figura legendaria del nuevo periodismo. Una acción delirante: así como los caballeros de la Tabla Redonda se lanzaban en pos del Santo Grial envueltos en una armadura de poder sobrenatural, Thompson entró en Las Vegas pertrechado con un arsenal verdaderamente mágico de "nefandas sustancias químicas" en su búsqueda del Sueño Americano.