'My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total
consumption'... This is not the drug-addled Hunter S Thompson of
later years, but the product of diligent research on the early days
of the Hell's Angel phenomenon of 1960s America. Thompson
associated himself with the Angels for a year; drinking with them,
riding with them, and eventually pushing his luck too far and being
'stomped' by them. He came up with an entertaining and rounded
picture of the 'outlaws', broadly sympathetic, but neither an
apology for their excesses, nor a condemnation of their sometimes
terrible crimes. This highly enjoyable book is distinctively
Thompson; free-wheeling journalism shot through with a snarling
distaste for authority. (Kirkus UK)
With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent a year on the road with the Angels, documenting his hair-raising experiences with Charger Charley, Big Frank, Little Jesus and the Gimp. Hell’s Angels was the result: a masterpiece of underground reportage whose freewheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of Gonzo journalism, and made Thompson’s name as the wild man of American writing.
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