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Freak Kingdom - Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism (Paperback)
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Freak Kingdom - Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R436
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Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature:
drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged
aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In
all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has
unfortunately been forgotten. In this perceptive, dramatic book,
Tim Denevi recounts the moment when Thompson found his calling. As
the Kennedy assassination and the turmoil of the 60s paved the way
for Richard Nixon, Thompson greeted him with two very powerful
emotions: fear and loathing. In his fevered effort to take down
what he saw as a rising dictator, Thompson made a kind of Faustian
bargain, taking the drugs he needed to meet newspaper deadlines and
pushing himself beyond his natural limits. For ten years, he cast
aside his old ambitions, troubled his family, and likely hastened
his own decline, along the way producing some of the best political
writing in our history. This remarkable biography reclaims Hunter
Thompson for the enigmatic true believer he was: not a punchline or
a cartoon character, but a fierce, colorful opponent of fascism in
a country that suddenly seemed all too willing to accept it.
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