Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism

The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw through Richard Nixon's treacherous populism and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits, sustained by drugs, mania, and little else. For ten years, he cast aside his old ambitions, troubled his family, and likely hastened his own decline, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history.
This timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth.

• Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
• Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library (Hardcover))
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
• Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
• Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
• The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Papers, Volume 1)