Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
“Hunter was the only twentieth-century equivalent of Mark Twain.”—Tom Wolfe“Thompson is a genuinely unique figure in American journalism, a superb comic writer and a ferociously outspoken social and political critic.”—Jonathan Yardley,The Washington Post“Mr. Thompson, the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism, still exerts a powerful hold on the American psyche. . . . He was first and foremost an original, vivid prose voice.”—The New York Times“Some of the finest political and social writing of our times.”—The Seattle Times“Thompson should be recognized for contributing some of the clearest, most bracing and fearless analysis of the possibilities and failures of American democracy in the past century.”—Chicago Tribune“At his best he has the kind of trenchant, mordant wit of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain.”—Houston Chronicle