Hunter S. Thompson Livres

Le journaliste Raoul Duke et son avocat, le célèbre Docteur Gonzo, partent pour Las Vegas. Après soixante-dix heures sans sommeil, un enlèvement, de sauvages poursuites sur l'autoroute et deux chambres d'hôtel dévastées, trouveront-ils le Rêve Américain ? Adapté au cinéma par Ferry Gilliam avec Johnny Depp et Benicio Del Toro, Las Vegas parano est un ovni littéraire hilarant, un road-trip sous acides détonant qui ne laissera aucun lecteur indifférent.

" Hunter S. Thompson, grand allumé notoire, inventeur du "journalisme gonzo", le seul à pouvoir le pratiquer : ses reportages homériques sur des sujets aussi divers que le sport, la politique, la drogue, la musique, sont des longs papiers hurlants, où il apparaît comme le héros déjanté, bourré de drogues et d'alcool, "couvrant l'événement" de l'intérieur, c'est-à-dire du bar, du fond des chiottes ou de sa chambre d'hôtel totalement ravagée. Et le résultat est fantastique, car, contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, il accroche au bout de sa plume géniale des lambeaux d'Amérique plus vrais que nature. C'est l'Amérique au vitriol, ses beaufs, ses marginaux hallucinés, ses porcs, sa beauté maladive et monstrueuse... Bien plus fort que Coluche ! Ce gars est un dangereux activiste comme on n'en fait plus. "Stan Cuesta, Rock & Folk

Dans les années 50, Kemp, jeune journaliste globe-trotter, buveur de rhum confirmé et alter ego de l'auteur, quitte Greenwich Village pour Porto Rico où il a décroché un boulot de reporter au San Juan Daily News. Toutes sortes d'individus y travaillent : misanthropes désabusés, ratés, ambitieux prêts à refaire le monde, tous parias en quête d'une existence meilleure sous les tropiques. Mais la paradisiaque triade rum, sex, sun vire aux cuites prolongées, aux bagarres, aux fêtes débraillées, à la sexualité sauvage. Et en même temps qu'il bute contre la dérisoire liberté de l'ennui, Kemp assiste à la lente agonie d'une île rongée par l'argent, les ambitions de l'Amérique et la compromission hypocrite des journalistes. Premier roman d'un écrivain qui deviendra célèbre pour son style grinçant et ses textes scandaleux, Rhum Express, chronique mordante et sincère d'une désillusion, tranche avec tout ce que l'on connaît de Hunter S. Thompson.

Hunter S. Thompson's ESPN.com columns blend sports, politics, and sex in a captivating and popular manner.

Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, and Songs of the Doomed he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit, anger, and occasional compassion. Collected together for the first time, The Gonzo Papers Anthology is an indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity, and a remarkably skewed common sense. 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral' William F. Buckley 'No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet does it so hilariously' Nelson Algren

From the legendary journalist and creator of "Gonzo" journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern's 1972 presidential election. Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Hunter S. Thompson's searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency--from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon--is infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson "the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism" (The New York Times). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written.

The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.

This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a writer's evolution at the magazine that he helped put on the map. From Thompson's first piece - on his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform - to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, via portraits of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam and Muhammad Ali, this volume also includes some articles not previously collected, as well as correspondence between Thompson and his friend and editor Jann S. Wenner. The result is a vital portrait of a writer as he pursues his lifelong obsession: The Death of the American Dream. Edited with an Introduction by Jann S. Wenner 'Glorious . . . wave upon wave of wild, ferocious, perfectly rendered prose . . . Thompson changed the meaning of journalism.' Wall Street Journal 'The great comic writer of the twentieth century.' Tom Wolfe

The Proud Highway is a literary milestone. For the first time, the private and most intimate correspondence of America's most influential journalist is being made public.

The first volume of the Gonzo papers shows the brilliant, ranting observations and cultural commentary of Thompson at his best.