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Authors: Hunter S. Thompson

The Great Shark Hunt
Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Gonzo Papers, Volume 1
0-7432-5045-1
The first volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary
Gonzo Papers.
Pieces range from Thompson’s
National Observer
days to famous entries from
Rolling Stone. Publishers Weekly
hails it as “filled with moral outrage and fiendish humor” and
Cosmopolitan
called it “an indictment of everything shoddy, shifty, and just plain rotten that has afflicted our planet since the 1960s.”

Generation of Swine
Tales of Shame and
Degradation in the ’80s
Gonzo Papers, Volume 2
0-7432-5044-3
The bestselling second volume, this collection of essays from Hunter S. Thompson’s days as media critic at
The San Francisco Examiner
chronicles the social and political debauchery and decadence of the 1980s.

Songs of the Doomed
More Notes on the Death of the
American Dream
Gonzo Papers, Volume 3
0-7432-4099-5
Spanning four decades, this extraordinary third volume covers high and hideous moments in Thompson’s career, with original pieces from
The Rum Diary, Prince Jellyfish,
and
The Curse of Lono,
as well as memos to famous friends and coverage of the infamous Roxanne Pulitzer trial. In
Songs of the Doomed,
no one is safe from Thompson’s savage wit and astute social commentary.

Kingdom of Fear
Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child
in the Final Days of the American Century
0-684-87324-9
Hunter S. Thompson’s New
York Times
bestselling memoir: a hilarious, harrowing, historic chronicle of the making of the Gonzo journalist.
“Thompson’s voice still jumps right off the page, as wild, vital and gonzo as ever.”

–The Washington Post

The Rum Diary
A Novel
0-684-85647-6
A brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s.
“A great and an unexpected joy. . . reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent.”

–The Philadelphia Inquirer

Screwjack
A Short Story
0-684-87321-4
(hardcover)
A collection of three wild and outlandish short stories from literary legend Hunter S. Thompson–including rare and elusive lost classics.

Hey Rube
Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the
Downward Spiral of Dumbness. Modern
History from the Sports Desk
0-684-87319-2
(hardcover)
Where do sports, politics, and sex collide? In Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular
ESPN.com
columns, collected here for the first time.
“Thompson is a genuinely unique figure in American journalism, a superb comic writer and a ferociously outspoken social and political critic.”

–The Washington Post

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1.
From an undated letter written by English political writer Edmund Burke (1729–1797) to Thomas Mercer.

 

2.
Illinois v. Rodriquez,
497 U.S. 177 (1990).

 

3.
Alabama v. White,
503 U.S. 953 (1990).

4.
Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz, 496 U.S. 444 (1990).

5.
Ex Parte Milligan,
71 U.S. 2 (1866).

 

6.
Jesse Barron.

7.
Lisl Auman.

 

8.
Bob Braudis, by far the most enlightened and intelligent law enforcement officer I’ve ever met.

9.
Brinegar v. U.S.,
338 U.S. 160, 180-181 (1949) (Jackson, J., dissenting)

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