Title: The kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century /
Authors: Thompson, Hunter S.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Thompson, Hunter S.; Journalists United States Biography
Abstract: From the Publisher: Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking-in his journalism, in his life, and of the law-changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel-from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson's legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.
Contents: Foreword / Timothy Ferris -- Memo / the Sports desk -- Part 1 -- When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro -- Mailbox: Louisville, summer of 1946 -- Would you do it again? -- Witness -- There Is No Such Thing As Paranoia -- Strange lusts and terrifying memories -- Rape in Cherokee Park -- God might forgive you, but I won't -- New dumb -- In The Belly Of The Beast -- Sally loved football players -- Paris Review #156 -- What marijuana? -- Lynching in Denver -- Felony murder law-don't let this happen to you -- Jesus hated bald pussy -- Part 2 -- Politics Is The Art Of Controlling Your Environment -- Running for sheriff: Aspen 1970 -- Sunday night at the Fontainebleu -- Memo from the sheriff -- Dealing with the DA-before and after -- Saturday night in Aspen -- Witness II -- Seize The Night -- Night manager -- 16 Alexander -- Where were you when the fun stopped? -- September 11, 2001 -- Speedism -- Rules of driving fast -- Song of the sausage creature -- Lion and the Cadillac -- Geerlings & the war minister's son -- Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why -- Letter to John Walsh -- Part 3 -- Foreign Correspondent -- May you live in interesting times -- Last days of Saigon -- One hand clapping -- Invasion of Grenada -- Ambassador to Cuba -- Witness III -- Letter from lawyer Goldstein -- It Never Got Weird Enough For Me -- Fear and loathing in Elko -- Heeere's Johnny! -- Kiss, kiss -- War on fat -- Welcome to the Fourth Reich -- Amor Vincit Omnia -- White helicopter -- Hey Rube, I love you -- Fear and loathing at the taco stand.