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Gonzo Republic - Hunter S. Thompson's America (Paperback)
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Gonzo Republic - Hunter S. Thompson's America (Paperback)
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This is the first academic book on Thompson in twenty years,
designed for both students and scholars. "Gonzo Republic" looks at
Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America. Thompson
was a patriot but also a stubborn individualist. Stephenson
examines the whole range of Thompson's work, from his early
reporting from the South American client states of the USA in the
1960s to his twenty-first-century internet columns on sport,
politics and 9/11. Stephenson argues that Thompson inhabited, but
was to some extent reacting against, a core tradition of American
individualism - e.g. Thoreau, Emerson and Horatio Alger - whose
perceived Romanticism and naivety Thompson treated with disdain,
but whose focus on the autonomous self he respected grudgingly. One
of the key subjects the book investigates is Thompson himself, as
personified in the texts. He created a wild, drug-abusing persona;
then, as he became trapped in it, his later work began to reflect
ironically on celebrity and the oppressive forces that uphold it.
Thus, as well as looking closely at his books, Stephenson analyses
Thompson's relationship to issues such as drugs, the
counterculture; politics; celebrity; the American Dream; sexuality;
ethnicity and nationalism.
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