in Las Vegas and on the Campaign Trail '72) are excerpted. Sections from the author's two original Fear and Loathing serials (. The last section comprises later cultural commentary and other items. The third section has a selection of Thompson's earliest writing, including for National Observer and the U.S. Next is a section on politics, including excerpts from his book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and a group of articles from 19 documenting the last months of Richard Nixon's presidency. The book has four sections, not strictly chronological, beginning with a collection of his more famous Gonzo-style articles, including those about the Kentucky Derby, Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy, his Chicano lawyer friend Oscar Zeta Acosta (" Strange Rumblings in Aztlan"), and the 1973 Super Bowl. It is the first of what would become four volumes in The Gonzo Papers series. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time, the book is a roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from 1956 to the end of the 1970s, including the rise of the author's own gonzo journalism style as he moved from Air Force and sports beat-writing to straight-ahead political commentary. Originally published in 1979 as Gonzo Papers, Vol. The Great Shark Hunt is a book by Hunter S.
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