Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

A definitive, hand-picked selection of Hunter S. Thompson's finest pieces ever published in "Rolling Stone"--the magazine that he helped to put on the map in the 1970s."Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of a writer and a magazine. Jann S. Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor an [...]
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A definitive, hand-picked selection of Hunter S. Thompson's finest pieces ever published in "Rolling Stone"--the magazine that he helped to put on the map in the 1970s."Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of a writer and a magazine. Jann S. Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has selected the pieces--including many never collected before--to show Hunter's "Rolling Stone" writing, when taken as a whole, as an extended, allusive autobiography of the writer himself pursuing his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of the American Dream.From Hunter's first piece for "Rolling Stone"--the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform--to his last piece on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, with plenty of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, Muhammad Ali, and Bill Clinton woven in along the way, "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" presents forty-two examples of the best of Hunter's work edited anew, along with never-before-seen selections from the correspondence between Wenner and Thompson. The result is a vital inside glimpse of the rollicking spectacle of a writer at his peak, delivering the work of his career to the editor of the magazine that became his literary home.