The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange TimeSimon and Schuster, 6 лист. 2003 р. - 602 стор. The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers” is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay, a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful ‘60s and ‘70s. |
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PART | 17 |
A Southern City with Northern Problems | 38 |
The Temptations of JeanClaude Killy | 77 |
The Ultimate Free Lancer | 96 |
A Conversation on Ralph Steadman and His Book America | 111 |
Freak Power in the Rockies | 151 |
The SoCalled Jesus Freak Scare | 175 |
PART | 185 |
Living in the Time of Alger Greeley Debs | 374 |
The Hashbury Is the Capital of the Hippies | 383 |
When the Beatniks Were Social Lions | 394 |
Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines | 406 |
The Police Chief | 413 |
PART FOUR | 421 |
Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith | 452 |
University of Georgia | 486 |
Authors Note | 192 |
Memo from the Sports Desk Rude Notes from a Decompression | 238 |
Mr Nixon | 248 |
The Boys in the Bag | 282 |
The Scum Also Rises | 299 |
PART THREE | 343 |
Democracy Dies in Peru but Few Seem to Mourn Its Passing | 352 |
He Haunts the Ruins of | 358 |
Chatty Letters During a Journey from Aruba to Rio | 365 |
The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat | 495 |
The Hoodlum Circus and the Statutory Rape of Bass Lake | 516 |
The Funeral of Mother Miles | 524 |
When the Going Gets Weird | 530 |
Fear and Loathing in the Near Room | 547 |
Fear and Loathing in the Far Room | 559 |
Bibliography of Works by Dr Hunter S Thompson by Kihm Winship | 591 |
Bibliography of Works on Dr Hunter S Thompson by Kihm Winship | 599 |
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