Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream - Softcover

Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743240995 ISBN 13: 9780743240994

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably astute social commentary. With Thompson's trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades -- 1950 to 1990 -- Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem," and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents, and Fourth Amendment battle with the Law. These tales -- often sleazy, brutal, and crude -- are only the tip of what Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time." Songs of the Doomed is vintage Thompson -- a brilliant, brazen, bawdy compilation of the greatest sound bites of Gonzo journalism from the past thirty years.

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Review:

Tom Wolfe There are only two adjectives writers care about anymore..."brilliant" and "outrageous..".and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them.

Washington Post Book World Songs of the Doomed allows us to track Thompson's evolution as a writer, and hence the evolution of the form he played such a major role in creating.

Book Description:

‘Thompson’s best work of the past three decades’ New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743240995
• ISBN 13: 9780743240994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355