Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson - Hardcover

McKeen, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393061922 ISBN 13: 9780393061925

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2008

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 428 pages; Description: xvii, 428 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-404) and index. Subjects: Thompson, Hunter S. Journalists --United States --Biography. Summary: McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the inventor of Gonzo journalism--Hunter S. Thompson--as never before: one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but viewed journalism as his life's calling. Contains 16 pages of photographs.

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Reseña del editor:

Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When 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 control room late at night when Thompson did most of his work. McKeen gets behind the drinking and drugs to show the man and the writer-one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life.

Biografía del autor:

William McKeen is the author of Highway 61 and editor of Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay. A journalism professor at the University of Florida, he lives with his family near Wacahoota, Florida.

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393061922
• ISBN 13: 9780393061925
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428