About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 205. Chapters: Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Morrison, Charlie Crist, Mark Tremonti, Burt Reynolds, Michelle McCool, Tony La Russa, Belle de Jour (writer), D. S. Lliteras, Mel Martinez, Tori Sparks, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Walter Dix, Scott Stapp, Kay Hagan, Richard Simmons, Sharon Lechter, Scott Speicher, Angela Corey, Terry Bowden, Faye Dunaway, Albert A. Murphree, Rita Coolidge, Carl M. Kuttler, Jr., Arthur Kurzweil, Cliff Ellis, Iron & Wine, Reubin Askew, Jake Owen, Jason Altmire, Parris Glendening, Christine Lahti, Art Agnos, Dina Titus, W. D. Childers, Leslie Cochran, Jim Towey, Scott Proctor, Jeff Kottkamp, Dorothy Allison, Charles Ghigna, Joanna Garcia, Balint Vazsonyi, Barry Cohen (attorney), Sylvia Earle, Casper Van Dien, Ray Sansom, Alan Ball (screenwriter), Cheryl Hines, Kevin Kelly (announcer), Allen Boyd, Fiona Kelleghan, Luis Fonsi, Dewey Smith, Norman Thagard, Charlie LaPradd, George Winterling, R. Clarke Cooper, Selin Kuralay, Ryan Key, Cristian Amigo, Matthew Barnett Robinson, Paul Gleason, Trenesha Biggers, Linnea Sinclair, Chris Anyanwu, Jay Garner, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Robert Urich, Stephen Graham Jones, Aquila Berlas Kiani, Mekia Cox, LeAlan Jones, Craig McCarthy, Nancy Kulp, Dick Howser, Kenneth Minihan, Needlz, Doug Marlette, Rosephanye Powell, Emilie Richards, Jim A. Kuypers, Teresa Jacobs, Steve Oelrich, Bobby Frazier, Jeff Galloway, Marc H. Ellis, Ion Sancho, Bill Proenza, Margaret Keyes, Polly Holliday, Donna Deegan, Cecile Reynaud, Joseph W. Cullen, Gabriel Traversari, Leonard Skinner, Virginia Spencer Carr, Ken Jenne, John L. Piotrowski, Bruce Bochy, Hannah England, William H. Ginn Jr., Kathy Castor, Michael F. Brennan. Excerpt: Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky to a middle class family, Thompson went off the rails in his teens after the death of his father left the family in poverty. He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery. He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. He travelled frequently, including stints in Puerto Rico and Brazil, before settling in Aspen, Colorado in the early 1960s. Thompson became known internationally with the publication of Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1967), for which he had spent a year living and riding with the Angels, experiencing their lives and hearing their stories first hand. Previously a relatively conventional journalist, with the publication in 1970 of "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," he became a counter cultural figure, with his own brand of New Journalism he termed "Gonzo," an experimental style of journalism where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. The work he remains best known for is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972), a rumination on the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. It was first serialised in Rolling Stone, a magazine with which Thompson would be long associated, and was released as a film starring Johnny Depp and directed by Terry Gilliam in 1998. Politically minded, Thompson ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, in 1970, on the Freak Power ticket. He was well known for his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon, who he claimed represented "that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character" and who he characterised in what many consider to be his greatest contribution to American letters, Fear and Loathing
