An astonishing volume of private correspondence, and a critically acclaimed follow-up to The Proud Highway, shows Hunter S. Thompson as brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever. Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, the never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone;...

A young reporter's life in the 1950s. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished.

A wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Hunter S. Thompson's and Ralph Steadman's most eccentric book "The Curse of Lono" is to Hawaii what "Fear and Loathing" was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally published in 1983, "The Curse of Lono" features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph...

An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.

"Cuidado con este libro. Este libro es peligroso. Te puede cambiar la vida. Todos los grandes libros son peligrosos. Este es un gran libro. Tan peligroso como la vida. Este libro habla de la vida como una tentativa inútil de escapar de la muerte. La muerte como el castigo justo por no haber sabido vivir. La vida y la muerte. Nadie vive realmente. Nadie muere tampoco. Ese es el secreto. Miedo y asco. El mundo es tan corrupto como Las Vegas. Un paraíso...