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The Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson
W. W. Norton
July 2008
On Sale: July 7, 2008
Featuring: Hunter S. Thompson
448 pages
ISBN: 0393061922
EAN: 9780393061925
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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. 16 pages of
photographs.
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