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Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking — in his journalism, in his life, and of the law — changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel — from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances.
Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson's legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. Whether detailing his exploits as a foreign correspondent in Rio, his job as night manager of the notorious O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational legal maneuvering that led to his full acquittal in the famous 99 Days trial, Thompson is at the peak of his narrative powers in Kingdom of Fear. And this boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.
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Tom Barnett
reviewed Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century on February 14, 2009 Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
"It never got weird enough for me". -Hunter S. Thompson
This is Hunter at his finest. This book was one of those that you wish had just one more page at the end for all of eternity. Kingdom of Fear is written in a loose biographical form, in true Thompson style, it leapfrogs from stories of pre-adolescent vandalism, to scathing rants of George W. Bush in the same chapter, but somehow never looses its cohesiveness.
The stories of Hunter and Johnny Depp exchanging cars and checkbooks will make you laugh like a hyena, spit out your coffee and piss yourself all at once, his legendary run for Sheriff of Aspen will make you want to become more politically active, his take on 9-11 and the horrors of the Bush administration might just make you shed a tear or two.
No one does political satire better. This book makes me sad that not another one will ever be written like it, and it makes me grateful that I still have plenty of Thompsons books left to read.
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