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What is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for Hunter S. Thompson?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson, illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Did Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas do well?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas became a benchmark in American literature about U.S. society in the early 1970s.
Did Hunter S. Thompson write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in Las Vegas?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971.
Who published the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson?
In November 1971, Rolling Stone published the combined texts of the Las Vegas trips as a two-part story. Random House published the hardcover edition in July 1972.
Did anyone reject Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Hunter S. Thompson had first submitted a 2,500-word manuscript for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Sports Illustrated that was aggressively rejected.
What is the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas about?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971.

Question: Why do they go to Vegas?
Self-contained rewrite: Why do Hunter S. Thompson go to Vegas?