Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

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The Essential Writing of
HUNTER S.
THOMPSON

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Hunter S.

Fear and loathing at Rolling stone : the essential writing of
Hunter S. Thompson / edited and with a foreword by Jann S. Wenner
and with an introduction by Paul Scanlon.

   p.     cm.

I. Wenner, Jann. II. Rolling stone (San Francisco, Calif.) III. Title.

PN4874.T444F43 2011

070.1′7—dc23

2011032312

ISBN 978-1-4391-6595-9
ISBN 978-1-4391-7023-6 (ebook)

Contents

Foreword by Jann S. Wenner

Introduction by Paul Scanlon

The Battle of Aspen: Freak Power in the Rockies

October 1, 1970

Strange Rumblings in Aztlan: The Murder of Ruben Salazar

April 29, 1971

Memo from the Sports Desk: The So-Called “Jesus Freak” Scare

September 2, 1971

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Part II . . . by Raoul Duke

November 25, 1971

The Campaign Trail: Is This Trip Necessary?

January 6, 1972

The Campaign Trail: The Million-Pound Shithammer

February 3, 1972

The Campaign Trail: Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire

March 2, 1972

The Campaign Trail: The View from Key Biscayne

March 16, 1972

The Campaign Trail: The Banshee Screams in Florida

April 13, 1972

The Campaign Trail: Bad News from Bleak House: Total Failure in Milwaukee . . . with a Few Quick Thoughts on the Shocking Victory of Double-George . . .

April 27, 1972

The Campaign Trail: More Late News from Bleak House

May 11, 1972

The Campaign Trail: Crank-Time on the Low Road

June 8, 1972

The Campaign Trail: Fear and Loathing in California: Traditional Politics with a Vengeance

July 6, 1972

The Campaign Trail: In the Eye of the Hurricane

July 20, 1972

The Campaign Trail: Fear & Loathing in Miami: Old Bulls Meet the Butcher

August 17, 1972

The Campaign Trail: More Fear and Loathing in Miami: Nixon Bites the Bomb

September 28, 1972

The Campaign Trail: The Fat City Blues

October 26, 1972

Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls . . .

November 9, 1972

Memo from the Sports Desk & Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami

August 2, 1973

Fear and Loathing at the Watergate: Mr. Nixon Has Cashed His Check

September 27, 1973

Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl

February 28, 1974

Fear and Loathing in Limbo: The Scum Also Rises

October 10, 1974

Interdicted Dispatch from the Global Affairs Desk

May 22, 1975

Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’76: Third-Rate Romance, Low-Rent Rendezvous

June 3, 1976

Fear & Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird: The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat

December 15, 1977

Last Tango in Vegas: Fear and Loathing in the Near Room and the Far Room

May 4 and May 18, 1978

A Dog Took My Place

July 21, 1983

The Taming of the Shrew

May 30, 1991

Fear and Loathing in Elko

January 23, 1992

Mr. Bill’s Neighborhood

September 17, 1992

Letter to William Greider

January 27, 1994

He Was a Crook

June 16, 1994

Polo Is My Life: Fear and Loathing in Horse Country

December 15, 1994

Memo from the National Affairs Desk. To: Dollar Bill Greider

August 24, 1995

Memo from the National Affairs Desk. To: Jann S. Wenner.

August 8, 1996

The Shootist: A Short Tale of Extreme Precision and No Fear

September 18, 1997

Memo from the National Affairs Desk: More Trouble in Mr. Bill’s Neighborhood

March 19, 1998

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