Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
 

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

by Hunter S. Thompson

Kingdom of Fear is billed as a memoir, but in essence, all of Hunter S. Thompson's books could fit into this category since his life and work have always been tightly bound together by a mythology largely of his own making. (After all, this is the man who, before earning a single dollar as a writer, began meticulously saving a copy of every letter he ever sent.) Still, this is certainly an... (read more)

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Scattered, in fairly typical (meaning excellent) Thompson fashion. Covers his life (and the politics surrounding his life), jumping from the 60's to post-9/11 America. It's mostly recycled material, a sort of greatest hits. Well worth reading if you are unfamiliar with the good Doctor.

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