Outlaw journalist : the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson

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Title:

Outlaw journalist : the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson

Author:

McKeen, William, 1954-

ISBN:

9780393061925

Personal Author:

McKeen, William, 1954-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xvii, 428 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

Getting away with it -- Square peg, round hole -- The dark thumb of fate -- A natural ingrate -- Observer -- Stranger in a strange land -- Among the angels -- American dream -- Epiphany -- Freak power -- Making a beast of himself -- Truth is never told in daylight -- Celebrity -- Casualties of war -- Thompson's Island -- The genetic miracle -- Homecoming -- Man of letters.

Abstract:

"When Hunter S. Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, from childhood friends to colleagues, to assistants who sat around the Woody Creek, Colorado, kitchen control room late at night when Thompson did most of his work. McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer - one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life."--Jacket.

Personal Subject:

Thompson, Hunter S.

Subject Term:

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008013214.html

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Summary

The famous inventor of Gonzo journalism portrayed as never before, both his charisma and his adventurous work.

Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone . When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, from childhood friends to colleagues, to assistants who sat around the Woody Creek, Colorado, kitchen control room late at night when Thompson did most of his work. McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer--one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life.