Download Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson AudioBook Free
"Buy the ticket, take the drive," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it just about defined both his work and his life. Dread and Loathing at Rolling Natural stone showcases the roller-coaster of an job at the journal that was his literary home.Jann S. Wenner, the outlaw journalist's good friend and editor for almost thirty-five years, has set up articles that start with Thompson's infamous run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Party ticket in 1970 and end with his final piece on the Bush-Kerry showdown of 2004. Among is Thompson's remarkable coverage of the 1972 presidential advertising campaign - a magic of journalism under pressure - and lots of attention paid to Richard Nixon, his bête noire; encounters with Muhammad Ali, Invoice Clinton, and the Super Bowl; and a lengthy excerpt from his recognized masterpiece, Dread and Loathing in Las Vegas. Woven throughout is picked correspondence between Wenner and Thompson, the majority of it nothing you've seen prior publicized. It traces the evolution of a personal and professional marriage that helped redefine modern American journalism, and also reveals Thompson through a new prism as he pursued his lifelong obsession: The life and loss of life of the North american Dream.
