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Stories I Tell Myself : Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson by Juan F. Thompson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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An intimate, close-up portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, fearless outlaw journalist, "avenging proxy for the American polity," whose manic first-person articles and exposés, so interwoven with the getting of the story, gave rise to gonzo journalism (gonzagas: "fooled you"; bizarre). A portrait of the man: writer, brother, husband, manic searching soul who grew up with the times he inhabited, and in part created; a portrait most of all of the father: the alcoholic, drug-fueled, charismatic, irresponsible, idealistic, sensitive man, by the son who lived through it all and thrived to tell the dangerous, complex, loving tale. Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly," boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, and, in exchange for a reduced sentence, U.S. Air Force, Airmen Second Class, and radio technician trainee, later copy...

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Author

Juan F. Thompson

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307265357

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (436 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14