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Gonzo republic : Hunter S. Thompson's America /
Gonzo Republic looks at Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America. Thompson was a patriot but also a stubborn individualist. Stephenson examines the whole range of Thompson's work, from his earlyreporting from the South American client states of the USA in the 1960sto his twen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Gonzo Republic looks at Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America. Thompson was a patriot but also a stubborn individualist. Stephenson examines the whole range of Thompson's work, from his earlyreporting from the South American client states of the USA in the 1960sto his twenty-first-century internet columns on sport, politics and 9/11. Stephenson argues that Thompson inhabited, but was to some extentreacting against, the tradition of American individualism begun by the Founding Fathers and continued by Emerson and Thoreau. Thompson sought out the edge the threshold of chaos and in. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (190 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441142290 1441142290 1283380307 9781283380300 1472542452 9781472542458 9786613380302 661338030X |