Hunter S Thompson And The Death Of The American Dream
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The Death Of A Dream Hunter S Thompson And The American Dream
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Author : Sonja Maier
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-05-21
The Death Of A Dream Hunter S Thompson And The American Dream written by Sonja Maier and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Vienna (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Der Amerikanische Traum ist in Hunter S. Thompsons Texten ein ständig wiederkehrendes Motiv. Auf der Suche nach dem Traum, war es dem Gonzo-Journalisten nicht genug, die Lage der amerikanischen Nation gegen Ende der 60er Jahre bloß zu schildern, sondern sie zu erleben, um dann keine objektive Wahrheit, sondern seine subjektive Sicht der Dinge niederzuschreiben. Seine Beschreibungen der amerikanischen Nation und deren Traum in seinen Werken Angst und Schrecken in Las Vegas und Angst und Schrecken: Im Wahlkampf ′72 sind kaum positiv. Im Gegenteil. Er verweist sogar auf den Tod des Amerikanischen Traumes und den Verfall Amerikas. Der Traum erscheint ihm in vielerlei Gestalt: in Symbolen, wie zum Beispiel der von Geld und Einfluss regierten Stadt Las Vegas, die Thompsons Alter Ego Raoul Duke als Nervenzentrum des Traums identifiziert; Seine Protagonisten durchleuchten die traditionellen Werte der Gesellschaft und müssen feststellen, dass sie sich bei näherem Betrachten als Heuchelei erweisen - als Mythos, wie eben der Amerikanische Traum selbst. Der Reporter, der auf Grund seines einzigartigen Schreibstils oft als Stiefkind der New Journalists oder gesetzloser Journalist (Outlaw Journalist) bezeichnet wurde, wird von der Angst - der Angst vor dem Untergang alles Guten für das Amerika seiner Meinung nach einmal eingetreten ist - übermannt. In seinen von Halluzinogenen eingefärbten Charakterisierungen entlarvt er die Gesellschaft als korrupt, oberflächlich und gierig. Versteckt hinter dem nationalen Moralkodex und unter dem Vorwand den Amerikanischen Traum zu suchen, erlauben seine Mitmenschen sich dem Journalisten der Freiheit zu berauben, und somit seinen persönlichen Traum zu zerstören. Jedoch nimmt Thompson nicht die Rolle des Moralapostels ein, sondern beweist immer wieder seine Mit
Hunter S Thompson And The Death Of The American Dream
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Author : Robert Charles Sickels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Hunter S Thompson And The Death Of The American Dream
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Author : Andrew Brewick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Hunter S Thompson And The Death Of The American Dream written by Andrew Brewick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Journalism categories.
Songs Of The Doomed
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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-03-22
Songs Of The Doomed written by Hunter S. Thompson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Literary Collections categories.
I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start . . . stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen – and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography. Divided into sections by decade, Songs of the Doomed begins with a furious condemnation of the US justice system and ends with the author’s own version of the events that led to his extraordinary court case. Stopping off at the infamous summit conference in Elko, Illinois; Saigon in 1975 (the war zone Thompson was fired while en route to); and Palm Beach in the eighties for the Pulitzer divorce, here – in true Gonzo fashion – is the long strange trip from Kennedy to Nixon to Quayle. ‘Mr Thompson’s best work of the past three decades’ New York Times Book Review ‘There are many hideously funny stories in this collection. Thompson writing on mescalin, staying on for the fall of Saigon, explaining what it must be like to be a multimillionaire in Palm Beach . . .’ Independent on Sunday ‘Dead funny . . . That our guru has made it this far merits drinks and dynamite all round at the Woody Creek Road and Gun Club (and spiritually affiliated North London branches). That he is still alive, and at large, defies medical and legal beliefs’ Andy Kershaw, Literary Review ‘Proves that you can’t keep the old bastard quiet . . . a superb offering’ City Limits
Hunter S Thompson And The Search For The Death Of The American Dream
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Author : Scott R. Herron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
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Fear And Loathing In America
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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-27
Fear And Loathing In America written by Hunter S. Thompson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning 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 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years—addressed to the author's 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.
Songs Of The Doomed
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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Songs Of The Doomed written by Hunter S. Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Political culture categories.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Author : Hunter S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-10-16
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Harper Perennial Modern Classics written by Hunter S. Thompson and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’
The American Dream Is Dead
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Author : Chris Whitworth
language : en
Publisher: America Star Books
Release Date : 2011-09-01
The American Dream Is Dead written by Chris Whitworth and has been published by America Star Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with categories.
Chris Whitworth, author of A Man Called Death, The Holiday Killer and The Jigsaw Gang, presents his first non-fiction novel, The American Dream is Dead: The Rise, Fall and Degradation of Humanity. What is the American dream? Is it the house with the white picket fence, the perfect husband/wife, two kids, a dog, a cat and a job that pays $100K a year? Or is it that we should all be treated equal, despite our sex, race, and social standing? What if the American dream is dead? What if it died long before anyone could truly find what it was and what is was supposed to represent. Many heroes of literature have touched on the meaning of the American dream. From the late, great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all scholars of the mythical American Dream. Chris Whitworth digs deep into modern culture and exposes the rise, fall and degradation of humanity through the death of the American dream.
Deer Hunting With Jesus
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Author : Joe Bageant
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-06-24
Deer Hunting With Jesus written by Joe Bageant and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Social Science categories.
Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England