by Timothy Denevi
Public Affairs Books
HardcoverIf you've never heard of Hunter S. Thompson, sit your ass down and get caught up now. If you like your journalism relentless yet a little bit crazy, HST is for you.
Author Timothy Denevi is an assistant professor at George Mason University and lives with his here.
family near Washington, D.C. His website is
Here's an excerpt of Freak Kingdom hosted by salon.com
From the publisher's website (one of my favorite publishers):
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw the danger of Richard Nixon early and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits, sustained by drugs, mania, and little else. 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 timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth.
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