The Excessive Life and Philosophy of Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo Journalism and the American Situation

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Hunter S. Thomp­son has been gone for 20 years now. When he went out, as the brand new Pur­swimsuit of Received­der video on his life and work reminds us, he did so in a excessive­ly Amer­i­can man­ner: with a gun, and for the time being of his personal choos­ing. Even his lengthy­time followers who respect­ed…

Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Fascinating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)

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51 years in the past, Hunter S. Thomp­son wrote Fear and Loathing on the Cam­paign Path ’72, which “remains to be con­sid­ered a sort of bible of polit­i­cal report­ing,” not­ed Matt Taib­bi in a fortieth anniver­sary edi­tion of the ebook. Concern and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of Amer­i­can polit­i­cal writ­ing for a lot of rea­sons….