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Outlaw Journalist. The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

Door William McKeen

Categorie
Media
Boeknummer
#252754
Titel
Outlaw Journalist. The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
Auteur
McKeen, William
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, W.W. Norton
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0393061922
ISBN13
9780393061925
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

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-
... (Lees verder)one who was happy to be considered an outlaw but took the calling of journalism as his life.
Pagina's
428
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,50

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