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The book has four sections, not strictly chronological, beginning with a collection of his more famous Gonzo-style articles, including those about the Kentucky Derby,
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and the U.S. Air Force. The last section comprises later cultural commentary and other items. Sections from the author's two original
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The book omits the illustrations by Ralph Steadman that originally accompanied many of the Thompson articles in this collection.
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and sports beat writing to straight-ahead political commentary. It is the first of what would become four volumes in
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Jacket Copy for Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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Personalities depicted by the author as cavorting about with him include his illustrator and friend
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Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines . . . Ain't What They Used to Be!
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Memo from the Sports Desk & Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami
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Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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and a group of articles from 1973 and 1974 documenting the last months of
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1979 collection of previously published articles by Hunter S. Thompson
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Address by Jimmy Carter on Law Day: University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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The Inca of the Andes: He Haunts the Ruins of His Once-Great Empire
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Welcome to Las Vegas: When the Going Gets Weird the Weird Turn Pro
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Fear and Loathing at the Watergate: Mr. Nixon Has Cashed His Check
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Next is a section on politics, including excerpts from his book
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Ashes to Ashes & Dust to Dust: The Funeral of Mother Miles
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Memo from the Sports Desk: The So-Called "Jesus Freak" Scare
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Presenting: The Richard Nixon Doll (Overhauled 1968 Model)
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film
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Democracy Dies in Peru, but Few Seem to Mourn Its Passing
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paperback edition, with bibliographies by Kihm Winship.
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Last Tango in Vegas: Fear and Loathing in the Near Room
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Last Tango in Vegas: Fear and Loathing in the Far Room
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The Hoodlum Circus and the Statutory Rape of Bass Lake
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lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, Jean-Claude Killy, and then-
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Why Anti-Gringo Winds Often Blow South of the Border
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Fear and Loathing in Washington: The Boys in the Bag
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Index


Hunter S. Thompson
The Gonzo Papers
Politics
Journalism
Summit Books
Generation of Swine
Hunter S. Thompson
gonzo journalism
Air Force
The Gonzo Papers
Olympic
Jean-Claude Killy
Oscar Zeta Acosta
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan
1973 Super Bowl.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Richard Nixon
National Observer
...in Las Vegas
Rolling Stone
Scanlan's Monthly
The New York Times
Playboy
Ralph Steadman
Chicano
football
O. J. Simpson
Jimmy Carter
George McGovern

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