{"product_id":"fear-and-loathing-in-america","title":"Fear and Loathing in America","description":"\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'The music made by the language resembles gunfire, or an exploding grenade ... he fires off missives as though they were missiles' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Very few editions of collected letters are worth reading from cover to cover, but this is one'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'There are only two adjectives writers care about any more - \"brilliant\" and \"outrageous\" - and Hunter has a freehold on both of them' \u003c\/b\u003e- Tom Wolfe\n\u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eBrazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Highway.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\nSpanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book \u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e, twisting political reporting to new heights for \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and making sense of it all in the landmark \u003ci\u003eFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. \u003c\/i\u003e\n\nTo read Thompson's dispatches from these years - addressed to authors and friends, enemies, editors and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut - is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224153608536,"sku":"9780747553458","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780747553458.jpg?v=1764831653","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fear-and-loathing-in-america","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}