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By turns exasperating and entertaining, this is also a devastating portrait of the writer as an incorrigible outsider; provides a revealing look at Thompson's relationships with Nelson Algren, Norman Mailer, Joan Baez, Charles Kuralt, and many others, from the mid-1950s through 1967.

Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture

Some say that the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now, the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of the choices of one man, an unlikely hero who may not survive the next twenty-four hours. The adrenaline-laced trilogy that began with Black and Red now races to an unbelievable conclusion with White. In White, Thomas Hunter struggles to stave off a war and a virus that are simultaneously ravaging two worlds' populations. Meanwhile,...

Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidates right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Youngs responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politicians confidant and he was assured he was like family." In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him...

AS FORETOLD BY ANCIENT PROPHETS, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the earth a new Adam. This time, however, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called...Green. But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest. Then, when least expected, a twenty-four year old named Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and woke up in that...

From the Publisher: Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking-in his journalism, in his life, and of the law-changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel-from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering...

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. Sethś time is running out. If he cant́ hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasnt́ been able to break the go

"When Hunter S. Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and what America was, be it in politics, at the Kentucky Derby, or in the Hells Angels' lair. William McKeen became friends with Thompson after writing a monograph on his journalism. McKeen now has interviewed many of Thompson's associates who wouldn't speak before, from childhood friends to colleagues, to assistants who sat around the Woody Creek, Colorado, kitchen...

"Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend."--Jacket.

"Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. In 2021, 1,500 books were banned in the United States. More than any other year previously recorded. Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into...