Songs of the Doomed

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.

• Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
• The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Papers, Volume 1)
• Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (Gonzo Papers, vol. 4)
• Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
• Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• The Rum Diary: A Novel
• The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1)
• Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk