Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)

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First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson’s savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the creator’s account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “test it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the most defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a type of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.”
        This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: “Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-
ing in Las Vegas,” “Peculiar Rumblings in Aztlan,” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-
dent and Depraved.”
Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a latest writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked–and provoked–an era that used to be not such a lot the ’60s proper, but somewhat the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson used to be there to explode the myth of “objective” journalism and assist pave the way for the pens and voices that followed.

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