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Abernathy, Ralph, 123
Abe’s Liquor Store, 17
Acosta, Annie, 230–31
Acosta, Marco, 117–18, 230–31
Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 116–18, 133, 204, 224, 332
autobiography of, 175, 230
death at age 33 planned by, 117
disappearance and presumed death of, 230–31, 248
drinking and drug use by, 117, 156–57, 169, 172, 231
failed L.A. sheriff’s bid of, 117, 155
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’s Dr. Gonzo based on, 166–67, 169–76, 248
film version of Thompson’s eulogy for, 266–68
Hispanic political activism and, 157–58, 160
in Las Vegas with Thompson, 158, 164–65
lawsuit over Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas threatened by, 175–76, 229–30
as lawyer, 157
nickname of, 117
Panamanian idol given to Thompson by, 117
personality of, 116–17
physical appearance of, 116
“Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” and, 157–58, 160, 162
Thompson’s correspondence with, 157–58, 230
Thompson’s first meeting with, 116–17, 157
Thompson’s memorial piece about, 248
Thompson’s relationship with, 117, 155–56, 157, 175–76, 230, 248
writing of, 130
adrenochrome, 172
Advertisements for Myself (Mailer), 263
Agar (dog), 64, 66, 69, 84
Agnew, Spiro, 177, 197, 289
AIDS, 319
Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The (Miller), 62
Air Force, U.S., 38, 39, 43, 58, 157, 263
Thompson discharged from, 34–35
Thompson in, xvii, 14, 21–35
Thompson’s disciplinary troubles in, 23, 24–25, 31–32, 34
Thompson’s electronics training in, 22, 23
Thompson’s military intelligence training in, 23–24
Thompson’s newspaper writing for, 26–31, 34–35
Albany, N.Y., 86
Ali, Muhammad, 226–29, 262–63
Allen, George, 200
“Almost Working Artist, The” (Thompson), 50
“Amazing Grace,” 312, 362
Ambrose, Stephen, 321, 328–29
America (Steadman), 153
American Automobile Association, 37
American Dream, 85, 178, 273, 343, 357
Aspen Wallposter depiction of, 138
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 176
football and, 214
of Jack Thompson, 4, 118
1968 Democratic National Convention and, 125
Nixon and, 120, 208, 221
politics and, 201
Robert Kennedy’s assassination as death of, 123
Thompson’s failed bid for Pitkin County sheriff as death of, 156
Thompson’s never-written book on the death of, 114, 118, 125, 127, 128–29, 132, 134, 138, 152, 164, 202, 302, 307, 308
Watkins-Thompson feud and, 298
American Indians, 87
American Mercury, 321
American Samoa, 246
Thompson’s offer to be governor of, 91
America’s Cup, 152–53, 167
amphetamines, 69, 148, 242, 324
Amram, David, 48, 49, 330, 364
Anderson, Sherwood, 41
Angels and the Sparrows, The (Kennedy), 59
anti-Communism, 102–3, 119–20
Armed Forces Press Service, 32
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 79
Art Students League, 39
Aruba, 72
Arum, Bob, 226
Aspen, Colo., 114, 116–17, 126, 238, 257, 281, 285, 297, 300, 312, 327–28, 345
Aryan old guard of, 154
Buffet in, 255, 258
local elections in, 134, 138, 139, 142, 152–56
as playground for the rich, 133–34
Thompson as regarded in, 154
Thompson’s first visits to, 65–66, 84–85
Thompson’s memorial service held in, 361–62
Thompson’s name-change and other proposals for, 153–54
Aspen Center for Physics, 126
Aspen Free Press, 363
Aspen Institute, 299
Aspen Times, 138
Aspen Valley Hospital, 132
Aspen Wallposters, 138, 139, 142, 154–55
Associated Press, 226
“Astronauts’ Collective Unspoken,” 100
Athenaeum Literary Association, 9, 15–16, 17, 20, 32, 39
Atherton High School, 15
Atlantic Monthly, 49
Auman, Lisl, 345
Auntie Mame (Dennis), 59
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Acosta), 175, 230
Aykroyd, Dan, 260
Baez, Joan, 64
Baker, Tom, 239–40
Balentine, Rick, 353–55
Ballantine, Ian, 274
Ballantine Books, 101–2, 123, 130, 176
Ballou, Robert, 49
Baltimore Sun, 56, 72
Band, The, 122
Bangs, Lester, 140
“Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat, The” (Thompson), 248, 263
“Banshee Screams in Florida, The” (Thompson), 188
Bantam Books, 273, 274
Bard Theater, 17
Barger, Ralph “Sonny,” 99, 103, 104, 108, 111, 215, 355–56, 357
baseball, 6, 7, 10, 27, 29, 31
basketball, 29, 30
“Battle of Aspen, The” (Thompson), 154–55, 160, 178
BBC, 155, 202, 249
Beatles, 122, 140, 217
Beats, 41, 60, 63, 325
Beatty, Warren, 209
“Beer Boat Blues” (Thompson), 73
Bejmuk, Anita, see Thompson, Anita Bejmuk
Belushi, John, 260, 261, 274
Benson, Jack, 52
Benti, Joe, 129
Benton, Tom, 138, 295
Berger, Sandy, 213, 245–46
Bergin, David, 286
Berkeley, Calif., 88–89
Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 88, 92, 95, 101, 108, 139
Berkley Barb, 181
Bernstein, Carl, 201, 204–7, 293
Better Than Sex (Thompson), 320–22, 329
Bibb, Porter, 4–5, 10, 15, 16, 17, 29, 42, 43, 126, 155, 279, 334, 337, 355, 361
Big Sur, Calif., 62, 85, 141, 179–81, 300
location and description of, 61, 62–63
Thompson’s eviction from, 67
Thompson’s Pageant piece on, 108
Thompson’s stay in, 63–67
“Big Sur: The Garden of Agony” (Thompson), 66–67
blacks, 11, 39, 43, 86–87, 95, 157
Blakemore, Neville, 7, 10
Bolivia, 72, 76
Bone, Bob, 46, 53, 56, 72–73, 74, 237
Bonfire of the Vanities, The (Wolfe), 143
Booker, James, 150
Booth, Judy, 48
Bormann, Martin, 228
Boston Globe, 119, 129, 135, 186, 227, 290, 293
bourbon, 4
Bowen, Eleanor Smith, 109
bowling, 55
boxing:
Ali-Foreman’s Zaire fight, 226–29
Liston-Patterson fight, 84
Box Shop, 99, 106
Boyle, Peter, 267
Boys on the Bus, The (Crouse), 192
Bradlee, Ben, 205
Bradley, Ed, 244, 302, 321, 324, 354, 364
Brando, Marlon, 1, 16, 87, 97, 327
Bratkowski, Zeke, 31
Braudis, Bob, 154, 155, 252–53, 290, 294, 298, 305, 329, 331, 337, 343–44, 345, 346, 347, 353–54, 358, 364
Brazil, 72–73, 74, 75–76, 80
Breakfast with Hunter, 285, 361
Breslin, Jimmy, 79, 94
Brinkley, Douglas, 110, 169, 177, 211–12, 289, 293, 316, 321, 324, 330, 337, 345, 348, 349–50
background and career of, 319–29
and publishing of Thompson’s correspondence, 333–35, 340–41
Thompson and, 319–20, 329
as Thompson’s literary executor, 128, 356, 359–60
Thompson’s swaggering defense of, 328–29
British royal family, 317
Brown, Nickole, 338–39
Brown Power Movement, 130
Bruce, Dink, 268, 285
Bruton, John, 8, 10
Bryan, William Jennings, 321–22
Buckley, William F., 264, 281, 313
Buffett, Jane, 255
Buffett, Jimmy, 155, 247, 255–56, 258, 261, 265, 269, 303, 324, 328, 349, 355
Burdick, Eugene, 76
“Burial at Sea” (Thompson), 67
Burke, David, 213
Burroughs, William, 41
Burton, Tim, 327
Bush, George H. W., 287, 318, 319
Bush, George W., 345, 348
Butler, David, 210
Caddell, Pat, 209, 216–17
California, 120, 123, 195, 348
Attorney General’s office of, 97
Thompson’s description of, 89
see also specific cities
Cameron, Angus, 101, 102
Campbell, Joseph, 64
Capote, Truman, 79, 140, 151, 163, 256
Caputo, Philip, 238, 256
Cardoso, Bill, 119, 120, 135–36, 146, 149, 150, 227
Carroll, E. Jean, 316–17
Carroll, Hattie, 219
Carson, Johnny, 59
Carter, Jimmy, 218–19, 243–44, 251, 287, 315, 340
Carville, James, 318
Cassady, Neal, 106
Castlewood Athletic Club, 9–10
CBS News, 80, 94, 124, 129, 183, 196, 213
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand, 149, 194, 223
“Charge of the Weird Brigade” (Thompson), 271–73
Charters, Ann, 163
Chase, Chevy, 260
Chatham, Russell, 256, 282–83, 356
“Chatty Letters During a Journey from Aruba to Rio” (Thompson), 73–74
Chaykin, Maury, 328
Chevrolet, 134
Chicago, Ill., 123–25, 132, 136, 141, 178, 183, 195, 277, 307
Chicago, University of, 7
Chicago Auto Show, 132, 136
Chicago Tribune, 68, 72, 238
Chisholm, Shirley, 185
Chitty, Monty, 187, 188–90, 244, 247, 257, 268, 289, 363
Churchill Downs, see Kentucky Derby
Cigarette Key (Thompson and Corcoran), 268–70
Citizen Kane, 33, 140
civil rights movement, 92, 342
Civil War, U.S., 7, 8
Clancy, John, 39, 40, 60, 156
Clifford, Peggy, 65–66
Clift, Montgomery, 16
Clinton, Bill, 314–16, 318, 321, 341
cocaine, 43, 211–12, 215, 244, 245, 250, 252, 267, 274, 281, 305, 324, 357
Cocaine Papers (Freud), 211
Cold War, 79
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 33, 325, 362
Collyer, Bud, 112
Colombia, 72
Colorado, 187, 193, 198
Bureau of Investigation of, 156
see also Aspen, Colo.; Owl Farm; Woody Creek, Colo.
Columbia Journalism Review, 220
Columbia Law School, 38–39, 60
Columbia University, 40, 41
Command Courier, 26–32, 34–35
Commonweal, 111
Conklin, Leah, 84
Conklin, Sandra, see Thompson, Sandra Dawn Conklin
Conrad, Joseph, 111, 325
Continental Hyatt (Riot) House, 130, 313
Copacabana Beach, 73, 81
Corcoran, Judy, 255, 265
Corcoran, Sebastian, 255, 265, 279, 355, 363
Corcoran, Tom, 254–56, 258, 265, 268–71, 275–76, 302, 349, 355, 363, 365
Corso, Gregory, 60
Cowan, Jay, 295, 296–97
Cox, Alex, 336
Cozumel, 204, 210, 218, 223
credit card companies, 169, 342
Cronkite, Walter, 124, 183
Crouse, Timothy, 241
background of, 181
1972 campaign covered by, 181, 184, 186, 191, 192, 195
Thompson’s relationship with, 181, 186, 192–93
Cuban boatlift, 270–71, 307
“Cubbly Cohn,” 33
Cuddebackville, N.Y., 47–50, 53, 56, 329
Curse of Lono, The (Thompson), 274–77, 281, 282, 283, 293, 317, 320
Curtis, Charlotte, 213
Cusack, John, 324, 338, 348
Daley, Richard, 124–25
“Dance of the Doomed” (Thompson), 241–43, 274, 307
Dark Corners of the Night, The (Olay), 64
Darrow, Clarence, 321
Daughter, The (a brief encounter), 37–38
Davies, Tod, 336
Davis, Al, 214, 215
Dean, James, 16
Dean, John, 213
“Death of a Poet” (Thompson), 313
Death of the American Dream, see American Dream
DeFreeze, Donald “Field Marshall Cinque,” 235
Deland, Fla., 84
del Toro, Benicio, 335, 340, 347
Democratic National Convention:
of 1952, 183
of 1968, 123–25, 132, 136, 141, 178, 195, 307
of 1976, 244–45
of 1984, xv, 282
Democratic Party, 91, 92, 125, 183, 185, 195, 197, 204–5, 212–13, 345
Dennis, Patrick, 59
Depp, Johnny, xvi, 296, 327–28, 329, 330, 333, 335–37, 340, 361, 362–64
Dexedrine, 166
Dickens, Charles, 78
Dickstein, Morris, 194
Didion, Joan, 79
Dillon, Matt, 324
Dimmick, Kenny, 347
Dinesen, Isak, 41, 68
Distant Drummer, 141
Dixon, Bill, 193, 224–25, 245, 247, 349, 364
“Dog Took My Place, A” (Thompson), 280–81, 282
Domino Club, 75–76, 81
Donadio, Candida, 68
Donleavy, J. P., 41, 50, 63, 87
Doolittle, Jimmy, 24
Doonesbury:
Thompson as model for “Uncle Duke” character in, xviii, 231–32, 245–46, 253, 258, 262, 264, 293
Thompson’s resentment at being used in, 245, 250, 301
Dowd, Maureen, 315
Dow Jones, 71, 76, 80, 92, 151
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell), 102
Downs, Hugh, 112
“Dr. Slow” (Thompson), 92–93
“Duke,” see Doonesbury; “Raoul Duke”
Duke University, 226, 227
Dylan, Bob, xvi, 98, 116, 122, 140, 174, 175, 177, 216, 219, 251, 276, 288, 296, 333, 362, 365
Eagleton, Thomas, 198
Ebb Tide, 117
Ebert, Roger, 340
Ecuador, 72, 73–74
Editor and Publisher, 36, 45, 46, 53
Edward (mynah bird), 199
Edwards, Joe, 134, 139
Edwards Air Force Base, 129–30
Eglin Air Force Base, xvii, 24–35, 40, 96, 200, 308
Eichelberger, Henry, 11
eighteen-year olds, 180
Eisenhower, Dwight, 120, 183
elections, U.S.:
of 1952, 120, 183
of 1960, 60, 80, 120, 129, 183, 184
of 1964, 91, 118–19
of 1968, 118–25, 185, 193
of 1972, 175, 180, 183–99; see also Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72
of 1976, 217, 233, 243–45
of 1992, 314–16, 318, 320–21
of 2000, 345
of 2004, 345, 348
Elko, Nev., liberal think-tank conference held in, 212–13, 214, 216–17
Elks Club, 37
Ellis, Warren, 358
El Movimiento, 157
Ericson, Don, 127–28
Esalen Institute, 64, 179, 181
Espeland, Gene, 30
ESPN, 345, 346
Esquire, 50, 77, 79, 102, 116, 127–28, 135, 141, 143, 149, 237
Esselen tribe, 64
Eszterhas, Joe, 180, 234
Etheridge, Mark, 56
Evans, William, 30, 32, 34
evolution, 321
Ewing, Wayne, 285, 323, 336, 361
Fairhope, Ala., 275
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 41, 200, 292
Faulkner, William, xvii, 41, 49, 53, 146
“fear and loathing,” Thompson’s definition of, 163
Fear and Loathing (Perry), 317
“Fear and Loathing at Mardi Gras” (Thompson) (unpublished), 247
“Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl” (Thompson), 215–16
“Fear and Loathing at the Watergate” (Thompson), 208–9
Fear and Loathing in America (Thompson), 342–43
“Fear and Loathing in Elko” (Thompson), 313–14, 323
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), 278, 328, 336–37, 339–40
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), xvi, 128, 163–77, 248, 260, 263, 277, 292, 324, 330, 341, 342, 343, 360
Acosta’s threatened lawsuit over, 175–76, 229–30
as epitaph on the sixties, 174–75, 357
excerpted in Songs of the Doomed, 307
fake editor’s notes in, 27–28
film rights to, 229–30, 319, 328
genesis of, 158, 163–64
journalism students’ enduring love for, xvii–xviii
Modern Library edition of, 332–33, 335
plot of, 169–74
recording of, 328
reviews of, 176–77
as Rolling Stone magazine piece, 167–69, 178, 181, 182
sales of, 201
Steadman’s illustrations for, 167–68
writing of, 164–66
“Fear and Loathing in Saigon” (Thompson), 241
“Fear and Loathing in the Bunker” (Thompson), 213
“Fear and Loathing in the Doldrums” (Thompson), 210
“Fear and Loathing in Washington” (Thompson), 220–21
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 (Thompson), 183–99, 223, 263, 320, 364
book deal for, 181
compiling of, 199–200
reviews and influence of, 201
Steadman’s illustrations for, 196–97
Thompson’s celebrity from, 196, 201
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’76, 218, 233, 236, 237, 341
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (documentary film about Thompson), 249–51
Federal Aviation Administration, 363
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 11–12
Felker, Clay, 143
Felton, David, 159, 160, 165, 169, 180, 181, 186, 222, 234, 246, 248, 263, 267
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 327
Ferris, Timothy, 159
Fielding, Henry, 78
Filthy Phil (Hell’s Angel), 98
Finch, Nigel, 249–51
First Amendment, 284
First Baptist Church, 312
First Kentucky Fire Insurance, 3
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 41, 49, 61, 164, 233, 325, 334
Fleder, Rob, 277, 283
Florida, xvii, 60, 81, 187, 218, 289
Florida State University, 25, 28, 31
Flying Dog microbrews, 324
Fong-Torres, Ben, 180
football, 27, 31, 90, 120–22, 200, 214, 226–27
Footlick, Jerry, 71, 77
“Footloose American in a Smuggler’s Den, A” (Thompson), 72
Ford, Gerald, 222, 287, 289
Foreman, George, 226–29
Fort Walton Beach Playground News, 31, 33
Fourth Amendment, 306
Fourth Amendment Foundation, 352
“Freak Power” politics:
Aspen Wallposters as publicity for, 138–39
double-thumbed fist as logo for, 139
and Edwards’s campaign for mayor of Aspen, 134
and Thompson’s campaign for sheriff of Pitkin County, 138, 139, 142, 152–56
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The, 98
Frenchy (Hell’s Angel), 98, 99
Freud, Sigmund, 211
Frick, Ann, 31, 33, 34, 44, 48, 49, 81
Frymire, Cheryl, 310–12, 337, 344, 346, 347, 356, 361, 362
Fulbright grants, 59
Fuller, Deborah, 299, 300, 302, 305, 307, 326–27, 339, 363
Thompson’s accidental wounding of, 343–44
as Thompson’s assistant, 295–97, 303, 323, 343–44
Geiger, Bob, 89, 105, 177
Generation of Swine (Thompson), 291–93, 307
Ghana, 79–80
Giles, Bill, 71, 82, 91, 93, 109
Gilliam, Terry, 336, 340
Ginger Man, The (Donleavy), 41, 50
Ginsberg, Allen, 60, 64, 108, 325
Gleason, Ralph J., 139, 236, 357
Glen Ellen, Calif., 88–89
Globe, 129
Goddard, Don, 148
Goldsmith, Barbara, 79
Goldstein, Chris, 346
Goldstein, Gerry, 122, 293, 301
Goldwater, Barry, 91, 119
Gonzalez, Joe, 30, 31
gonzo, origin of term, 149, 150
Gonzo (Rolling Stone’s Thompson memorial book), 357
“Gonzo” (tune), 150
Gonzo fiction, 324
Gonzo journalism, 279, 332–33
double-thumbed fist logo of, 251, 324, 361
as first-draft only, 224
as high-voltage Plimpton, 227
O’Rourke’s version of, 315
outlaw nature of, 137
Steadman’s place in, 167–68, 274, 277
Thompson’s definition of, 285
Thompson’s first writings in style of, 73, 92–93, 128, 137, 144–49, 150
Thompson trapped by, 251, 277, 301
“until one of us dies,” 226
writer-reader bond in, 74
see also journalism; New Journalism; Thompson, Hunter Stockton, writing of
Gonzo Way, The (Anita Thompson), 359
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 213, 216, 217
Goodwin, Richard, 213, 216, 217, 218, 220, 234
Goucher College, 54
Graham, Philip, 80–81, 82
Grateful Dead, 105
Great Britain, 317–18
Great Depression, 3, 8, 61
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), xvi, 41, 177, 233
Great Shark Hunt, The (Thompson) (anthology), 263–65, 281, 292, 313
“Great Shark Hunt, The” (Thompson) (magazine piece), 204, 210, 217, 223
Greenbaum, Norman, 365
Green Bay Packers, 31
Greene, Dan, 93
Greene, Graham, 65, 242
Greenfield, Robert, 180
Greider, William, 191–92, 195, 282, 315–16, 324
Grisoni, Tony, 336
Grove Press, 59
Guardian, 306
Guayaquil, 74
Gulf War, 314
“Gun Lobby, The” (Thompson), 127–28, 359
Guts Ball (Thompson) (unfinished novel), 202, 312
Hadden, Briton, 71
Haddon, Hal, 306, 359
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, 359
Halberstam, David, 302
Halstrom, Lasse, 327
Harmon, Fred, 56
Harper, Carl, 280
Harrell, Margaret, 114
Harris, Bill and Emily, 235–36
Harrison, Jim, 255, 256, 257, 268, 355
Hart, Gary, 185, 193–94, 195, 201, 209, 212, 288, 356, 357
Harvard University, 7, 40, 226
Haselden, Susan, 14–15, 39, 42
hashish, 225
Hawaii, 271–75, 347, 349, 355
Hawke, Jerry, 38–39, 40
Hawks Athletic Club, 9, 11, 155
HBO, 285
Hearst, Patricia “Tania,” 234–35
Hearst, William Randolph, 291–92
Hearst, William Randolph III, 286, 287–88, 290
Hell’s Angel (Barger), 110–11
Hell’s Angels, 116, 158, 307
Lynch Report on, 97–98
Merry Pranksters and, 105–8
Thompson beaten up by, xv, 105, 108, 110–11, 112
Thompson’s Nation piece about, xvii, 95, 97–101, 103
Thompson’s time spent with, 98–99, 103–9
Hell’s Angels (Thompson), 108–12, 116, 119, 128, 160, 177, 181, 263, 339, 341
book deals for, 101–2, 108
editing of, 108, 113–14
Modern Library edition of, 335
as participatory journalism, 102, 109
reviews of, 111–12
sales of, 112
Thompson’s payment to Hell’s Angels for, 103, 110, 112
writing of, 108–9
Hemingway, Ernest, xvii, 41, 48, 49, 61, 72, 74–75, 87–88, 117, 163–64, 200, 204, 256, 257–58, 268, 276, 277, 292, 325, 334
Henley, Don, 288
Henry, O., 113
Hersey, John, 78–79
Hewitt, Don, 183–84
“Hey Rube” (Thompson’s weekly ESPN sports column), 344, 345
Hiaasen, Carl, 155, 324
“High Flight” (Magee), 25
Hill, Anita, 313
Hills, Rust, 50
Hinckle, Warren:
as Ramparts editor, 118, 139
as Scanlan’s Monthly editor, 135, 144, 148, 151–52
Thompson’s relationship with, 135, 138, 143, 151–52
hippies, 105, 115–16, 156
Hiroshima (Hersey), 78–79
Hispanic Americans, 157–58, 160–61, 267
Hitler, Adolf, 6, 207
Hoffman, Abbie, 124
Hollister, Calif., 97
homosexuals, 63, 67, 256
Honolulu marathon, 271–72, 273, 276, 291, 317
House Un-American Activities Committee, 119–20
Hudson, Jo, 63, 85
Hughes, Harold, 194–95
Humphrey, Hubert H., 119, 124, 125, 185–86, 191, 219, 243
Hunter, Lucille Cochran, 3
Hunter (Carroll), 316–17
Hunter S. Thompson Day, 329–31
hunting, 85
Huxley, Aldous, 39, 41, 64
Ibogaine, 190–91, 224
I. N. Bloom Elementary School, 5–6, 7, 9, 10
Incas, 76, 84
In Cold Blood (Capote), 79
Independent, 356
insomniacathons, 325
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 138
International Olympic Committee, 136
Iran-Contra scandal, 289
Irsay, Jim, 337
Isle Aire (schooner), 58
Jack Kerouac Conference, 326
Jacklin, Judy, 260
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 185
Jagger, Mick, 333
Jarmusch, Jim, 328
Jarvis, Birney, 98
Jefferson, Thomas, 41
Jefferson Airplane, 105, 116, 333
Jefferson County Jail, 20, 21, 22
Jenkins, Loren, 238
Jersey Shore, Pa., 36–37, 44, 307, 310, 311
Jersey Shore Herald, 36–38
“Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith” (Thompson), 243–44
Johnson, Don, 324–25
Johnson, Lyndon B., 86, 91, 118–19, 123, 124, 213
Johnson, Samuel, 177, 333
Johnson File, The, 123
Joke’s Over, The (Steadman), 356
journalism, xvii
movies about, 26
objectivity and, 102–3, 201
presidential elections and, 183–84
sports, 9, 26–31, 36–38, 39, 55
Thompson’s play about, 53
Thompson’s put-downs of, 45, 58, 59, 85–86, 99–100, 102, 135, 160–61, 173–74, 192, 206, 286
Thompson’s self-image and, xviii, 292, 315
Thompson’s standing in, 71, 80, 151, 182, 183, 186, 191–92, 194, 207, 220, 238, 244, 290
trivialization of, 246–47
Wall Street Journal’s influence on, 70
yellow, 291–92
see also Gonzo journalism; New Journalism
Juenger, Kraig, 33–34, 35, 39, 96
Jull, Joseph, 19, 21
Junkie George (Hell’s Angel, aka George Zahn), 111
Kaegi, Walter, 5, 7, 8–9, 10–11
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The (Wolfe), 93–94
Kasdan, Debby, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10–11
Kaye, John, 266–67
Kennedy, Caroline, 217
Kennedy, Edward, 185, 219
Kennedy, John F., 60, 81, 83, 86, 118, 120, 129, 183, 184, 213, 312
Kennedy, Robert F., 113, 119, 120, 123, 124, 127, 128, 185, 193, 217, 220
Kennedy, William, 52, 53, 56, 58, 59–60, 68–69, 72, 86, 87, 155, 156, 204
Kentucky, University of, 131, 319
Kentucky Derby, 4, 27, 28, 144–48
“Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, The” (Thompson), 127, 144–49, 150, 160, 161, 263, 333
Kerouac, Jack, 41, 48, 60, 63, 64, 66, 106, 163, 164, 326, 329, 337
Kerouac (Charters), 163
Kerry, John, 197, 345, 348, 364
Kesey, Ken, 105–6, 107, 226, 307
Ketchum, Idaho, 87–88, 117
Key West, Fla., 254–71, 275, 278, 307, 349
Khan, Maria, 285, 289, 294, 295, 346
as Thompson’s assistant, 287, 293
Kilgore, Barney, 70–71
Killy, Jean-Claude, 132, 133, 134–37, 145, 146, 161, 162, 263
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 123, 157
Kingdom of Fear (Thompson), xvi, 348
Knopf, 101, 102
Kohn, Howard, 235
Kramer, Philip, 53, 55, 56
Kubla Khan (Coleridge), 33, 362, 364
Kunstler, William, 157
Kuralt, Charles, 80, 94, 244
Kuralt, Petey, 94
Kurlansky, Mark, 122
L.A. Free Press, 140, 141, 181
La Honda, Calif., 105–8
Landau, Jon, 140, 180
La Rue, Lash, 11
“Last Tango in Vegas” (Thompson), 262–63
Las Vegas, Nev., 158
Liston-Patterson fight in, 84
Thompson and Acosta in, 158, 164–65
see also Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Latin America, 68, 69, 89, 90
Thompson’s National Observer pieces on, 71–81, 84, 85
see also Puerto Rico
Leary, Timothy, 174, 323
Legends of the Fall (Harrison), 255, 256, 257
Leibovitz, Annie, 179, 181, 248
Lennon, John, 139–40
Letterman, David, 337
Lewis, Grover, 180, 181, 234
Library of America, 197, 335
Life, 103, 141, 151, 184
Lima, 74
Lindsay, John, 185
Linson, Art, 248–49, 266
Liston, Sonny, 84
Literary Lion, Thompson named by NYPL as, 335
Loeb, William, 190
Loiza Aldean, 56–57
Lombardi, John, 141–42
London, Jack, 62
Lord, Sterling, 66
Los Angeles, Calif., 116, 117, 130, 133, 155, 157–58, 161, 235, 278, 313
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 161
Los Angeles Times, xv, xviii, 155, 157
Lotos literary club, 333
Louis, Joe, 77
Louisville, Ky., xvi, 21, 23, 29, 35, 36, 39, 42, 52, 54, 55, 57, 63, 69, 76, 81, 83, 92, 94, 96, 104, 115, 131, 277, 318–19, 338, 355
Cherokee Park in, 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 50
Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of, 3, 4
clubs and social organizations of, 9–10, 14, 15–16, 20, 32, 42, 88, 154
description of, 3–5
Highlands suburb of, 3–6
Hunter S. Thompson Day celebrated in, 329–31
1937 flood in, 2
Prince Jellyfish and, 45, 49–50
Thompson’s analysis of race relations in, 86–87
Thompson’s childhood in, 2–20
Thompson’s description of, 67–68
see also Kentucky Derby
Louisville Collegiate Girls School, 14
Louisville Courier-Journal, 9, 12, 25, 56, 57, 69, 73
Louisville Times, 3
Louisville Veterans Hospital, 13
LSD, 105–7, 110, 117, 153, 166, 169, 172, 174, 208, 216, 231, 258
Luce, Henry, 43, 71
Luckett, Semmes, 297, 299, 304, 305, 307
Lukas, J. Anthony, 178
Lydon, Michael, 140
Lynch, Thomas, 97
Lynch Report, 97–98, 99, 102
McCarthy, Eugene, 119, 123, 124, 185
McCarthy, Joseph, 102–3
McCord, James, 205
McCumber, David, 286–87, 288, 289, 293, 299–302, 305, 308
McDonnell, Terry, 280
McGarr, Eleanor, 53, 54, 59, 94, 130, 364
McGarr, Gene, 53, 54, 59, 61, 94, 105, 130, 133
as Thompson’s partner in pranks, 44, 51–52
McGee, Max, 31
McGinnis, Joe, 121, 184, 192
McGovern, George, 185–86, 191, 193, 195, 196, 198, 209, 213, 214, 217, 364
McGuane, Thomas, 207, 255, 256, 257, 268, 275
McKee, Elizabeth, 53
McWilliams, Carey, 94–95, 97–98, 99, 101
Magee, Gillespie, 25
Mailer, Norman, 41, 79, 110, 151, 155, 226, 227, 229, 263, 360
Majic Bus, The (Brinkley), 328
Making of the President 1960, The (White), 184
Making of the President 1972, The (White), 200
Male High School, 15, 17, 18, 19, 28
Mallard, Dan, 258
Mankiewicz, Frank, 193, 194, 206
Marcus, Greil, 140
Margaritaville Records, 328
marijuana, 43, 119, 126, 173, 228, 250, 258, 259, 305, 315, 326
Marin, College of, 284
Marshall, Thurgood, 39
Martin, Dwight, 86–87
Matrix club, 105, 139, 337
Mears, Frank, 25
Meat Possum Athletic Club, 155
Meese, Ed, 284
Meggysey, Dave, 156
“Memo from the Sports Desk & Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami” (Thompson), 206–7
Mencken, H. L., 17, 28, 39, 264, 287, 321–32, 335
Meredith, Scott, 114, 116
Merry Pranksters, 105–8
mescaline, 130, 169, 172, 181, 241, 313
“Mescalito” (Thompson), 313
metajournalism, 73
Mexico, 66, 85, 199, 204, 210, 212, 217–18, 223, 230–31
Meyer, Nicole, 317
Miami Dolphins, 214
Miami Herald, 188, 288
Michigan, University of, 3
Middletown Daily Record, 51, 52, 53, 72
Thompson’s short happy life at, 45–47
“Midnight on the Coast Highway” (Thompson), 109
Miller, Henry, 39, 41, 54, 61–62, 63, 66, 67
Mills, Wilbur, 185
Milwaukee Journal, 56
Mint 400 motorcycle race, 164, 165, 170, 171
Mississippi, University of, 79
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 92
Mitchell, Jim and Artie, 283–84, 289
Mitgang, Herbert, 292
Modern Library, 332–33, 335
Monin, Joseph, 19–20
motorcycle gangs, 97
see also Hell’s Angels
“Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders, The” (Thompson), xvii, 95, 97–101, 103
“Mr. Tambourine Man,” 116, 177, 251, 333, 362, 365
Murphy, Dennis, 63
Murphy, Michael, 64
Murphy family, 63, 64
Murray, Bill (actor), xvi, 267, 361, 363
Murray, William (journalist), 104–5
Murrow, Edward R., 102–3
Muses Are Heard, The (Capote), 79
Muskie, Edmund, 185–87, 188–91, 195
Muskie, Jane, 190
Mussolini, Benito, 6
myasthenia gravis, 13
Nabulsi, Laila, 265, 267, 271–72, 273, 274, 294, 317, 350, 363
film of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas produced by, 278, 325, 328, 336, 340
as Saturday Night Live producer, 260
as Thompson’s assistant, 276, 295
Thompson’s relationship with, 260–62, 266, 269, 271, 277–78, 346
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 41, 177
Nash Bridges, 325
Nation, 234, 264
contributors to, 97, 101
Thompson’s Berkeley Free Speech Movement piece for, 108
Thompson’s Hell’s Angels piece for, xvii, 95, 97–101, 103
Thompson’s relationship with, 94–95, 101
National District Attorney’s Conference on Drug Abuse, 165–66, 170–71, 173–74
National Enquirer, 247
National Observer, 70–82, 86, 109, 137, 155, 158
end of Thompson’s relationship with, 90–94
Graham’s mocking of, 80
origin of, xvii, 70–71
Thompson as Latin American correspondent for, 71–81
Thompson at head office of, 81–82
Thompson’s contract with, 71
National Observer, Thompson’s pieces published in, 87, 234, 263, 288
“Chatty Letters During a Journey from Aruba to Rio,” 73–74
“Dr. Slow,” 92–93
“A Footloose American in a Smuggler’s Den,” 72
on Incas, 84
on skiing, 85
“When the Thumb Was a Ticket to Adventures on the Highway,” 84
“Why Anti-Gringo Winds Often Blow South of the Border,” 76–77
National Press Club, 81
National Public Radio, 328–29
National Rifle Association (NRA), 127, 128, 129
NBC, 139
Nesbit, Lynn, 116
New Hampshire primaries, 119, 120, 123, 180, 183, 185, 187, 243
New Journalism, 135
descriptions of, 77–79, 100
major figures in, 77–79, 94, 151
Thompson’s place in, 77, 79, 94, 151, 176
Wolfe as historian of, 78, 342
Wolfe’s dislike of term, 78
see also Gonzo journalism; journalism
New Left, 97, 175
New Orleans, La., 321, 341, 349
Newport, R.I., 152–53
New Republic, 264
Newsweek, 43, 80, 86, 192, 237, 238, 271
New York, 143
New York, N.Y., 32, 35, 51–52, 53, 54–55, 58, 60, 62, 67, 68, 69, 71, 81, 113–14, 148, 244, 307, 333, 339–40
Greenwich Village area of, 40, 42–43, 44, 48, 49
New Journalism and, 77–78, 94
Prince Jellyfish and, 50
Rolling Stone relocated to, 247
Thompson’s descriptions of, 41, 42–43
Thompson’s first stay in, 38–45
New Yorker, 79, 112
New York Herald Tribune, 39, 56, 59, 72, 77, 78, 79
New York Public Library (NYPL), 335
New York Times, 39, 74, 76, 77, 112, 119, 135, 151, 155, 156, 186, 193, 213, 231–32, 236, 244, 292, 315
New York Times Book Review, 176–77, 277
New York Times Magazine, 115–16
New York University, 325–26
Nicholson, Jack, 256, 257, 324, 327, 349, 361
Night Manager, The (Thompson) (unpublished book), 283–84, 286, 312
1968 (Kurlansky), 122
Ninety-two in the Shade (McGuane), 255, 268
Nixon, Richard M., 119–21, 174, 190, 200, 206, 215–16, 220, 246, 318
first published call for impeachment of, 138
inauguration of, 128–29
1960 election defeat of, 60, 120, 129, 183, 184
1968 election campaign and victory of, 118, 119, 120, 125
1972 election campaign and victory of, 183, 185, 197
political background of, 119–20
resignation and pardoning of, 222, 223
Thompson’s hatred for, 118, 119–20, 122, 129, 207, 208, 213, 214, 219, 287, 289, 321
Thompson’s meeting with, 120–22
as Thompson’s muse, 120, 206–8, 210, 213, 223, 287, 321
Thompson’s obituary for, 321–22, 323, 327
Watergate scandal and, 204–5, 207, 212, 213–14
Nixon administration, 138, 207, 236
Noonan, Anne Willis, 104, 115, 295, 356
Noonan, Billy, 115, 133, 154, 156, 295
Noonan, Jimmy, 15, 115
Nuclear Research Associates, 69
Oakland, Calif., 99
Oakland Raiders, 214, 215
Obelisk Press, 61
O’Brien, Larry, 91
Observer, 317
O’Farrell Theater, 283–84, 285, 303, 306
offset printing, 46
Olay, Lionel, 64, 68, 141, 234
Oliphant, Pat, 144
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 4
Olympic Games, of 1968, 132
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 220
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 105
Ono, Yoko, 139–40
On the Road (Kerouac), 41, 48, 60, 106, 164, 337
“Open Letter to the Youth of Our Nation, An” (Thompson, as “John J. Righteous-Hypocrite”), 17
opium, 239, 240
O’Rourke, P. J., 110, 315, 316, 333
Orwell, George, 102
Otisville, N.Y., 51, 53
Out of Africa (Dinesen), 68
Owl Creek country club, 15, 42, 88
Owl Farm, 116, 117, 131, 133, 156, 166, 177, 179, 198, 229, 237, 241, 246, 249, 251, 256, 260, 274, 275, 276, 285, 290, 295, 296, 297, 311, 319, 323, 326, 329, 333
Depp at, 336
locations of, 114–15, 125–26
market value of, 262
Palmer at, 303–4
Thompson’s blast-off from, 362–65
as Thompson’s refuge, 126, 131, 271, 280, 293, 297, 314, 345
Thompson’s suicide at, 349–51, 352–55
Owl House, 88
Pacino, Al, 327
Pageant, 108, 116, 119, 121, 122, 129, 130, 133, 138, 184, 313
Palmer, Gail:
porn career of, 303
Thompson’s legal troubles with, 305–7
Thompson visited by, 303–5
Palmer, Laura, 242
Pantheon Books, 114, 339
Paramount Pictures, 268, 270
Paris, 61
Paris Review, 226, 287
Patterson, Floyd, 84
Peace Corps, 81
Pearl Harbor, 25
Penn, Sean, 277, 324, 347, 349, 350
People, 246
People of the State of Colorado vs. Hunter S. Thompson, The, 305–6
Perot, Ross, 314
Perry, Charles, 142, 159–60, 165, 168, 178, 180, 186
Perry, Paul, 271, 273, 291, 316–17
Peru, 72
Peterson, Ted, 24
Pete’s Tavern, 113–14
Petro, Joe, 337, 356
Philadelphia Inquirer, 340
Phoenix, Ariz., 289
Ping-Pong (Hell’s Angel), 98
Pitkin County, Colo., 198, 305
see also “Freak Power” politics
Playboy, 67, 95, 108, 110, 212, 277, 284, 286, 349
The Curse of Lono excerpted in, 277, 283
“The Great Shark Hunt” and, 204, 210, 217, 223
interview with Thompson published in, 217–18, 222, 223
Thompson’s articles rejected by, 66, 116, 132, 133, 134
Thompson’s opinion of, 135
Plimpton, George, 79, 108, 226–29, 287, 310, 333, 340
Poet, The (aggrieved Jersey Shore Herald employee), 37–38
“Polish Girl, The” (Thompson), 341
Polo Is My Life (Thompson) (unfinished book), 312, 323, 338
Popular Library, 201
Porgy and Bess, 79
pornography, feminist, 283–84, 302–3
“Post-Orbital Remorse” articles (Wolfe), 100
“Presenting: The Richard Nixon Doll (Overhauled 1968 Model)” (Thompson), 122
Presley, Elvis, 217
Price, Dick, 64
Price, Raymond, 120
Prince Jellyfish (Thompson), 58, 59, 65, 101, 300, 312, 360
excerpted in Songs of the Doomed, 307
writing of, 45, 49–50, 52–53
Princeton University, 18, 19, 26, 40, 55, 298
Proffitt, Nicholas, 238–39, 240
Proud Highway, The (Thompson), 333–35, 339
Pryor, Richard, 288
psilocybin mushrooms, 153, 208, 268
Puerto Rico, 52–53, 55–58, 59, 65, 72, 88, 155, 237
Pulitzer, Herbert “Pete,” 280
Pulitzer, Joseph, 52, 292
Pulitzer, Roxanne, 280–82, 307, 330
Pulitzer Prize, 205–6, 238, 290
“Pull My Daisy,” 48
Punch, 306
Quinn, Sally, 196
Quito, 80
race, racism, 11, 79–80, 86–87, 95
Ramparts, 118, 135, 139, 141
Rand, Ayn, 17
Randolph Air Force Base, 22
Random House, 101, 108, 109, 110, 111–12, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 123, 129, 130, 169, 170, 176, 192, 202–3, 263, 283, 334, 339
“Raoul Duke,” 207, 262, 295, 314, 338
in Rolling Stone’s masthead, 175, 199, 356
Thompson overshadowed or imprisoned by, xvi, xviii, 202, 203, 225, 231–32, 249–51, 264, 301, 324, 325, 348, 356, 361
as Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas persona, 166, 167, 169–75, 177, 250
as Thompson’s Rolling Stone byline, xvii, 168–69, 206
Rather, Dan, 124
Ray, Lucille Cochran “Memo” (grandmother), 13, 40, 68, 73
Ray, Presley Stockton (grandfather), 3
Reagan, Ronald, 273, 284, 287, 289, 292, 294, 319
Reporter, 86–87, 91
Republican National Convention, of 1964, 91
Republican Party, 92, 118–19, 120, 125, 134, 185, 197, 289
Revelation, Book of, 118, 215, 311–12
Rice, Clifford “Duke,” 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13
Rice, Donna, 288
Ridley, Clifford, 71, 73, 82, 85, 90, 93
Right Stuff, The (Wolfe), 100, 130, 143
Rinzler, Alan, 176, 180, 200, 201, 239, 273, 276
Rio de Janeiro, 72–73, 74, 75–76, 80, 81
Rise of the Body Nazis (book proposal), 291–92
Riviera bar lime incident, 44
Robbie, Joe, 214
Robinson, Chris, 258–59, 265–66, 268–69
Rogue, 66–67
Rolling Stone, 130, 139–43, 149, 211, 217, 271, 326, 340, 344
Big Sur editorial conference of, 179–81
book division of, see Straight Arrow books
as celebrity showcase, 180–81, 247
Clinton and, 316
contributors to, 140, 234
founder of, see Wenner, Jann
founding of, 139
Hearst kidnapping story and, 235–36
New York relocation of, 247
Nixon issue of, 222
nude Lennon-Ono photos published in, 139–40
office politics at, 159–60
political content in, 140, 141, 178, 180–81, 217, 220, 234
“Raoul Duke” and Thompson’s names on masthead of, 175, 199, 203, 356–57
tenth anniversary issue of, 247–48
Thompson in Vietnam for, 237–43
Thompson memorial issue of, 356
Thompson’s 1972 campaign coverage for, 178–79, 181, 183–99; see also Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72
Thompson’s expense accounts and, 169, 179, 181, 199, 210, 247
Thompson’s National Affairs Desk for, 178, 220
Thompson’s non-coverage of the Zaire Ali-Foreman fight, 226–29, 233, 234
Thompson’s relationship with, xvii, xviii, 162, 178, 180–81, 182, 199, 203, 207, 209, 221–22, 233, 239–40, 247, 282, 313
“Uncle Duke” cover illustration on, 245–46
Walsh as managing editor of, 215
Wolfe’s “Post-Orbital Remorse” articles in, 100
Rolling Stone, Thompson’s pieces published in:
“The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat,” 248
“The Banshee Screams in Florida,” 188
“The Battle of Aspen,” 154–55, 160, 178
complete anthology of, 357
“Dance of the Doomed,” 241–43, 274
“A Dog Took My Place,” 280–81, 282
in early 1990s, 323
“Fear and Loathing at Mardi Gras” (unpublished), 247
“Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl,” 215–16
“Fear and Loathing at the Watergate,” 208–9
“Fear and Loathing in Elko,” 313–14, 323
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” 167–69, 178, 181, 182
“Fear and Loathing in Saigon,” 241
“Fear and Loathing in Washington,” 220–21
“Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith,” 243–44
“Last Tango in Vegas,” 262–63
“Memo from the Sports Desk & Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami,” 206–7
“The Scum Also Rises,” 222
“Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” 157–62, 165, 166, 178
Rolling Stones, 165, 276
Romm, Al, 46
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 5, 183
Rose, Charlie, 337
Rosenbaum, Ron, 197
Rosenthal, David, 334–35, 339
Royal Gazette Weekly, 59
Rubin, Jerry, 124
Rucci, MarySue, 339
Rudd, Hughes 244, 342
Rudell, Miss (teacher), 5
Rum Diary, The (Thompson), 91, 112, 300, 302, 312
excerpted in Songs of the Doomed, 307
first publishing deal for, 114, 339
liberation of manuscript of, 339
publishing and reviews of, 339–40
Thompson’s opinion of, 68
writing of, 58, 59, 65, 67, 68, 116, 118
Running, 271–74, 277, 317
Rupp, Adolph, 29
Rusk, Dean, 219
Ruwe, Nick, 121
Sabonis-Chafee, Catherine “Cat,” 298–300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306–9
Sabonis-Chafee, Terry, 298–99, 346
Sack, John, 79, 237
Sager, Mike, 313
Saigon, 237–43
St. Louis, Ky., 35
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 39
Salazar, Ruben, 157–62, 164, 165, 178
Salter, Jim, 143–44
Samoa, see American Samoa
Sanford, Terry, 225
San Francisco, Calif., 41, 60–61, 63, 65, 82, 88, 89, 95, 97, 104, 105, 118, 139, 148, 160, 186, 208, 233–34, 235, 286, 319, 337
cultural revolution in, 90–91, 105, 170, 174–75
death of hippie scene in, 115, 116
1964 Republican National Convention held in, 91
1984 Democratic National Convention held in, 282
O’Farrell Theater in, 283–84
Thompson’s apartments in, 90–91, 110
Thompson’s odd jobs taken in, 91
San Francisco Chronicle, 98
San Francisco Examiner:
Thompson as columnist for, 286–93, 307
Thompson in television ad for, 287–88
San Juan Star, 52–53, 56, 57
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 41
Satterwhite, Al, 218
Saturday Evening Post, 103, 104–5
Saturday Night Live, 260, 267
Saturday Review, 317
Scanlan, Paul, 160, 180, 239, 241
Scanlan’s Monthly, 141, 151, 157, 162, 217, 226, 234
birth and death of, 135, 138, 153
editor of, see Hinckle, Warren
Thompson’s failed America’s Cup coverage for, 152–53
Scanlan’s Monthly, Thompson’s pieces published in:
“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” 127, 144–49, 150, 160, 162, 263
“The Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy,” 132, 134–37, 138, 145, 146, 160, 162, 263
Schoelkopf, Ann, 51, 53, 65
Schoelkopf, Fred, 51, 53
Schrader, Paul, 268
Scopes, John, 321
Scott Air Force Base, 22–24, 33
Screwjack (Thompson), 312–13
“Screwjack” (Thompson), 304
“Scum Also Rises, The” (Thompson), 222
Seattle, Wash., 60
“Security” (Thompson), 16
See It Now, 103
Selling of the President, The (McGinnis), 121, 184, 192
Semonin, Paul, 39, 43, 53, 54–55, 104, 335, 355
in Aspen, 65, 84
in Caribbean with Thompson, 56–58
cross-country trip of Thompson and, 60, 61
as Marxist, 92
as Thompson’s childhood friend, 15–16, 17
Thompson’s correspondence with, 79–80, 86, 89–90, 92, 97
Semple, Bob, 119
Senate Select Committee on Watergate, 206
Sergeant, The (Miller), 63
Seymour, Corey, 356–57
Seymour Tribune, 36
Shapiro, Selma, 116
Shaw, George Bernard, 17
Sheridan, Peter, 188–89
Shir-Cliff, Bernard, 101, 108, 113, 130, 176
Shriver, Sargent, 198, 327
Silberman, Jim, 108, 109–10, 113–14, 118, 125, 129, 130–31, 132, 134, 138–39, 169, 174, 202–3, 263, 281, 291–92, 299, 302, 307, 339
Silk Road, The (Thompson) (unfinished novel), 271, 275, 307, 312
Silver Spring, Md., 81
Silverstein, Shel, 256
Simon and Schuster, 263, 291, 339
Simpson, O. J., 132, 136
Sinclair, Upton, 155
Singular Man, A (Donleavy), 87
Sirica, John, 205, 236
skiing, 85, 132
Sloane, Harvey, 58, 330
Smith, Floyd, 39–40, 41
Smith, Robin, 353
Smith College, 48
Solheim, Michael, 116–17, 126, 154–56, 157, 204, 306
Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey), 105
Songs of the Doomed (Thompson), 243, 271, 307–8, 312, 313, 348, 354
compiling of, 300–302, 307
Sorenson, Ted, 120
Southern, Terry, 79
“Southern City with Northern Problems, A” (Thompson), 86–87
Southern Star, 8–9
Soviet Union, 79
Spain, 59
Spanish Civil War, 74–75
Spectator, 16–17
“Spectator, The” (Thompson’s Air Force newspaper sports column), 27–28, 29
“Spirit in the Sky,” 365
Sportivo, 55–56, 57
Sports Illustrated, xvii, 158, 164, 165, 169, 226
sports journalism, 9, 26–31, 36–38, 39, 55, 175, 215, 226–27, 344
Stallings, Sam, 15, 18–19
Stanford Literary Review, 108
Stanton, Harry Dean, 328
Starr, Bart, 31
State Department, U.S., 120
Steadman, Anna, 208
Steadman, Ralph, 208, 249, 251, 258, 264–65, 313, 339, 347–48, 357
at America’s Cup with Thompson, 152–53
background of, 144
The Curse of Lono illustrated by, 274–76
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 illustrated by, 196–97
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas illustrated by, 167–68, 336
in Hawaii with Thompson, 272–74
“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” illustrations by, 144–49
LSD experience of, 153
memoir of Thompson written by, 356
at Thompson’s blast-off, 363–64
Thompson’s correspondence with, 150, 176, 210, 232
Thompson’s relationship with, 144–45, 151–52, 167, 274, 276, 277, 306, 317–18, 324
in Zaire, 226–27, 229
Steenrod, Ralston, 15, 18–19, 40, 55
Steinbeck, John, xvii, 62
Stellings, Judy, 14, 17, 19, 28, 32
Stephanopoulos, George, 318
Stephens, Ted, 23
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 62
Straight Arrow books, 169, 176, 180, 201, 217, 230, 233, 236, 239, 273
Stranahan, George, 126, 262, 306, 325
“Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” (Thompson), 157–62, 165, 166, 178, 332–33
Street, Donald, 58
Studio for Men, 325
Styron, William, 52–53
Suares, J. C., 144
Suez Crisis, 31
Summit Books, 263, 291
Sundahl, Debi, 283
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), 234–35
Talese, Gay, 77, 79, 94, 151, 284, 294
“Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy, The” (Thompson), 132, 134–37, 138, 145, 146, 161, 162, 263
test pilots, 130, 133
“There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Bruuuuuuummmmmmmmmm)” (Wolfe), 78
Third World, 76
Thomas, Clarence, 313
Thompson, Anita Bejmuk (second wife), 344, 346, 349, 358–59, 361
background of, 341
as Thompson’s assistant, 343
Thompson’s blast-off and, 363–65
Thompson’s letters and, 341
Thompson’s relationship with, 340–41
Thompson’s suicide and, 350–51, 353–55
wedding of Thompson and, xvi, 346
Thompson, Davison (brother), 6, 48, 55, 84, 126, 147, 278, 319, 326
birth of, 3
insurance career of, 131
Thompson as mystery to, 361
Thompson compared with, 1
Thompson’s correspondence with, 132
Thompson, Hunter Stockton:
ambition of, 30, 49–50, 65, 83, 143, 203, 349
athleticism of, 10
aura of suicide around, 264–65, 355–56
author’s note from, xvi, 366
automobiles of, 15, 42, 46, 49, 50–51, 84, 88, 89, 104, 115, 179, 266, 323, 347, 364
biographies of, 316–17
birth of, 2
boat owned by, 268–69, 279–80
breakfast of, 275, 296
as celebrity, xvii–xviii, 112, 196, 198, 201, 203, 207, 208, 211, 224–25, 231, 243, 244, 249–51, 254, 262, 293, 319, 324, 360–61
charisma of, xviii, 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 19, 23, 55, 151, 196, 283, 300
childhood of, 1–20
church attendance by, 13–14
cigarette holder used by, 30, 81, 142, 187
Colorado property of, see Owl Farm
contradictions in character of, 1–2, 3, 127, 300, 301, 308, 344
death at age 27 planned by, 89, 96–97, 117, 279
declining health of, 346, 347, 349–50
depression and, 344, 347–51
doctor-of-divinity degree of, 89
documentary films about, 249–51, 285
documentation of own life by, 47
drinking and drug use by, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24–25, 29, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 43–44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 57, 80, 90, 91, 98, 106–7, 109, 110, 113, 119, 126, 130, 133, 142, 149, 152–53, 155–56, 157, 159, 164–65, 166, 169, 172, 174, 180, 181, 187, 193, 195, 200, 203, 208–9, 216, 219, 223, 224, 225–26, 227–28, 239, 240, 241, 242, 250, 256, 258, 268, 274, 276, 279, 284, 287, 302, 305, 324, 325, 326, 333, 338, 357
drinking motto of, 40
drunk pet monkey of, 73
financial situation of, 36, 40, 42, 47, 50, 56, 60–61, 65, 68, 71, 73, 85, 89–90, 91, 94, 97, 101, 104, 108, 110, 169, 181, 204, 221, 225, 237, 239, 249, 262, 264, 266, 267, 272, 284, 324, 346–47
friendship as viewed by, 80, 141, 158, 237
as “the Good Doctor,” 89
guns and, 17, 63, 64, 85, 105, 112, 126, 127, 131, 154, 262, 287–88, 314, 320, 328, 339, 343–44, 351
Hemingway’s elk horns stolen by, 88
high school girlfriends of, 14–15
on the joys of fatherhood, 132
as juvenile delinquent, xvi, 2, 7–8, 10–12, 14, 17–20, 328
as male model, 56
memorial service and blast-off of, 177, 251, 361–65
motorcycles owned by, 101–2, 103–4, 110, 115, 195
music enjoyed by, 14, 18, 105, 116, 154, 165, 177, 276, 296, 323, 330
as pacifist, 127
persona of, see “Raoul Duke”
philosophy of, 16, 32–33, 155
physical appearance of, 3, 10, 11, 16, 33, 48, 81, 105, 112, 113, 139, 142, 153, 156, 180, 183, 187, 238, 258, 261
political activism and, 92, 113, 118–19, 125, 134, 178–79, 212–17; see also “Freak Power” politics
racism of, 11, 79–80, 283
rat-shooting arrest of, 80
reading by, 7, 8, 17, 18, 41, 48, 61, 257, 332
self-image of, xviii, 20, 24, 29, 33–34, 48, 59–60, 68, 80, 81, 85, 88, 89, 96, 108, 151, 177, 182, 203, 233, 250, 335, 345–46, 348–49
self-portrait photographs taken by, 47, 72, 111
sex machine toy of, 259, 265
sexual assault arrest of, 305–7
sloppy drunks despised by, 198, 203, 304, 325
as Southern gentleman, xvi, 2, 28, 147, 196, 282, 283, 303, 339, 345
speaking engagements of, 224–25, 264, 284, 323
spirituality of, 312, 343
suicide of, xv, xviii–xix, 349–51, 352–56
television appearances of, 59, 112, 267
television series proposal and, 285
typewriter of, 109, 131, 166, 361
vending machine encounters of, xvii, 45, 47, 52
voice of, 9, 10
women and, 55, 68–69, 182, 198, 212, 239, 252, 297, 322
on writers’ role, 49
Thompson, Hunter Stockton, correspondence of, 24, 26, 28–29, 31, 32–34, 37, 39, 42–43, 45, 48, 61, 63, 85, 102, 112, 120, 165, 206, 233, 245–46, 292, 306, 325
with Acosta, 157–58, 230
with Davison Thompson, 132
with Faulkner, 49
flies as, 89
with Graham, 80–81
with Hinckle, 135, 149
job applications, 45–46, 47, 52, 53, 71
with Johnson, 91
with Kennedy, 52, 53, 60, 68–69, 86, 87, 204
as lifelong habit, 22–23
with Lord, 66
with McKeen (author), 36
with Mailer, 110
published collections of, 333–35, 339, 340–43
with Ridley, 73–74, 85, 90
with Rinzler, 273–75
with Sandy Thompson, 55, 56–57, 60
with Semonin, 79–80, 86, 89–90, 92, 93
with Silberman, 130–31, 132, 134, 138–39, 174, 202–3, 281
with Steadman, 150, 176, 210, 232
with Stellings, 14–15, 28, 32
with Stranahan, 126
with Styron, 52–53
therapeutic value of, 22, 42
Thompson’s saving of, 47, 69, 333–34, 359
with Trudeau, 267
with Virginia Thompson, 10, 20, 22–23, 28, 40, 52, 55, 58–59, 131, 203, 211, 230
with Wenner, 236, 239
with Wolfe, 93, 166, 342–43
Thompson, Hunter Stockton, writing of, xvi
agents for, 66, 68, 114, 116
for Air Force Command Courier, 26–31, 34–35
anthologies of, 217, 233–34, 251, 357, see also Generation of Swine; Great Shark Hunt, The; Kingdom of Fear; Songs of the Doomed
book reviews, 87, 93, 323
catchphrases used in, 294
in childhood and high school, 8–9, 16–17
cocaine’s effect on, 211–12, 245, 250, 252, 274, 324
deadlines and, 74, 109, 116, 148, 153, 183, 186, 188, 194, 195, 199, 200, 215, 222, 223, 286, 290, 295, 299, 344
editors and, 67, 108, 113–14, 122, 128, 134, 148, 158–60, 168, 195–96, 273, 334; see also Wenner, Jann
fact and fiction mixed in, 57, 61, 101, 102, 137, 145–46, 163–64, 176, 194, 220–21, 274–75, 281
fake editor’s notes as staple of, 27–28, 200, 209, 223–24, 308
first political analysis in, 76
first published fiction, 67
getting-the-story as subject of, xvii, 73, 79, 137, 146, 147, 160–61, 188, 204, 208, 223, 242
“Hawaiian book,” see Curse of Lono, The
“highs” in, 275
influences on, 49, 50, 61, 64, 72, 74–75, 87–88, 200, 311–12
lost books, 312
for magazines, 66–68, 86–87, 115–16, 118, 127–29, 271–73; see also Nation; Pageant; Playboy; Rolling Stone; Scanlan’s Monthly
for newspapers, 8–9, 26–32, 34–35, 36–38, 45–47, 56, 57, 59, 68, 73, 213–14, see also National Observer; San Francisco Examiner
no second drafts in, 224
novels, see Prince Jellyfish; Rum Diary, The
as performance, 294
as pieced-together installments, 108, 148, 158, 160, 186, 195–96, 242, 276
rejections and, 49, 52, 53, 59, 66
and retyping of Thompson’s favorite books, xvii, 41–42
sex and, 281, 282–84, 303–4, 313
short stories, 39, 43–44, 50, 67, 300, 303–4, 312–14, 341, 360
sidekicks in, 135, 137, 146, 204, 274–75
sports journalism, 9, 26–31, 36–38, 39, 55, 175, 215, 344
stylistic repetition in, 210, 251, 277, 301, 323, 348
Thompson as ultimate subject of, 9, 28, 50, 87–88, 92–93, 128, 135–36, 137, 138–39, 151, 161, 188, 193–94, 201, 207, 307, 339
Thompson’s pseudonyms in, 17, 33, 39, 313, 314; see also “Raoul Duke”
Thompson’s seriousness about, 29, 41–42, 63, 122, 159, 195, 208, 209, 223, 250, 257, 290, 295, 324
Thompson’s work habits and, 65, 109, 148, 159, 165, 166, 192–95, 269, 290, 296–97, 302, 323, 352
see also Gonzo journalism
Thompson, Jack (actor), 325
Thompson, Jack (father), 4, 11, 83, 118
background of, 2–3
death of, xvi, 13
Thompson’s relationship with, 3, 5, 6, 13
Thompson, James Garnett (brother), 13, 84, 91, 126, 326
birth of, 11
death of, 318
homosexuality of, 132, 152, 284, 318–19
Thompson’s relationship with, 17, 56–57, 131–32, 152, 318–19
Thompson, Jennifer (daughter-in-law), 351
Thompson, Juan Fitzgerald (son), 98, 104, 107, 109, 110, 114, 115, 118, 152, 156, 166, 179, 198, 211, 218, 241, 252–53, 271, 295, 326, 332, 358, 361, 364
birth of, 89–90
at Hunter S. Thompson Day celebration, 330–31
memoir of Thompson written by, 359
Thompson’s relationship with, 116, 262, 281, 330–31, 348
Thompson’s suicide and, 351, 352–55
Thompson, Sandra Dawn Conklin (first wife), 107, 109, 110, 111, 141, 156, 208, 230, 232, 249, 261, 282, 294, 295, 326, 344
in Aspen, 84–85, 114, 253
in Big Sur, 63–67
in Caribbean, 57–58
death of day-old son of Thompson and, 197–98
divorce of Thompson and, 252–53, 256, 260, 262, 264, 271, 281
Doonesbury and, 246, 253
Hell’s Angels and, 98, 99, 104
in Hong Kong, 240–41, 245
jobs held by, xvii, 56, 59, 60, 65, 67, 69, 95, 211
in Mexico, 66, 218
at Owl Farm, 114–15, 118, 126, 152, 166, 211
personality of, 55, 84
physical appearance of, 54–55, 84
post-Thompson life of, 348
pregnancies of, 66, 85, 87, 88, 115, 116, 126, 132–33, 179, 182
in Rio, 81
stillborn daughter of Thompson and, 132–33
Thompson as viewed by, 2, 348–49
as Thompson’s assistant, 69, 182, 221, 252, 262, 265
Thompson’s correspondence with, 55, 56–57, 60
Thompson’s first meetings of, 54–55
Thompson’s relationship with, 64–65, 66, 68–69, 95, 104, 115, 131, 133, 166, 182–83, 197–98, 199, 212, 241, 245, 246, 252
Thompson’s wedding to, 83–84, 278
Thompson’s womanizing and, 182, 212, 252
Thompson, Toby, 251–52
Thompson, Virginia (mother), xvi, 1, 11–12, 19–20, 67, 81, 91, 126, 131, 196, 277, 329
alcoholism of, 2, 13–14, 318–19, 326
background of, 3
Thompson’s correspondence with, 20, 22–23, 28, 40, 52, 55, 58–59, 110, 131, 203, 211, 230
Thompson’s relationship with, 1–2, 3, 9, 13, 15, 17–18, 83, 284, 326
Thompson, Will (grandson), 348, 350–51
Thompson’s Island, 257, 265
Thompson-Steadman Report, 151–52
Thucydides, 7
Thy Neighbor’s Wife (Talese), 284
Time, 46, 71, 80, 86, 151, 155, 181, 184
flies mailed by Thompson to editor of, 89
Thompson as copyboy at, 40–45, 181
Time Inc., 169
Today Show, The, 112
To Tell the Truth, 112
Transmetropolitan (Ellis), 358
Treibick, Oliver, 347
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 41, 61, 67
Trudeau, Garry, 231, 253, 301
cartoon strip of, see Doonesbury
threat made by Thompson to, xviii, 245, 267
Tuck, Dick, 156, 222
Turner, Ed, 318
Twain, Mark, 276, 325, 360
Twenty-sixth Amendment, 180
Tyrell, Gerald, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9–10, 15, 17, 18, 26, 28, 40, 42
UFOs, 24, 48
Ugly American, The (Burdick), 76
“Ultimate Freelancer, The” (Thompson), 141
“Uncle Duke,” see Doonesbury
United Airlines, 59
Universal Studios, 249
Uruguay, 72
Valedene, Guy, 257
Vancouver Sun, 45
Vanderschmidt, Tom, 158, 164, 165
Vare, Ned, 154, 156
Vetter, Craig, 110, 158–59, 195, 217–18, 222, 223, 233, 241, 336
Vietnam War, 89, 118–19, 123, 124, 131, 186, 197, 236–43, 246, 319, 342
Viking Press, 49, 52
Virgin Islands, 58
“Voodoo in the Orange Bowl” (Thompson), 27
Walinsky, Adam, 212
Wallace, George, 123, 124, 185, 190, 197
Wall Street Journal, xvii, 70, 90, 360
Walsh, John, 215, 234, 344, 349
Ward, Ed., 159
Warren, Robert Penn, 15
Washington, D.C., 123, 127, 128, 179, 182, 195, 198, 204, 206, 208–9, 220, 234, 273, 274
Washington Post, 77, 80, 93, 186, 191, 193, 196, 201, 204–5, 232, 234, 236, 238, 282
Watergate scandal, 91, 196, 201, 204–7, 212, 213, 219, 225, 230, 236, 246, 289, 342
Watkins, Floyd, 297–98, 305
Weir, David, 235
Wenner, Jann, 159, 168, 180, 182, 191, 195, 196, 201, 208, 212, 213, 214–15, 216, 222, 223, 226, 230, 269–70, 280, 328, 332
anthology of Thompson’s writings proposed by, 217, 233–34
as celebrity, 247
politics and, 217, 220, 234, 315–16
praise and criticisms of, 140, 142, 143, 181, 209, 234
“Raoul Duke Room” as office of, 175, 186
Rolling Stone founded by, 139
at Thompson’s memorial service and blast-off, 353, 361, 362, 364
Thompson’s relationship with, xvii, xviii, 140–43, 162, 165, 178, 182, 195–96, 199, 203, 207, 209–10, 221, 222, 233–34, 236–37, 244, 245–48, 267–68, 273, 313–14, 333, 356–57
Thompson’s Vietnam trip and, 237, 239–43
When the Going Gets Weird (Whitmer), 317
“When the Thumb Was a Ticket to Adventures on the Highway” (Thompson), 84
Where the Buffalo Roam, 266–68, 319
“Which Side Are You On?,” 129
White, Bill, 31
White, Theodore H., 184, 200–201, 234, 314
Whitehead, Ron, 325–27, 329, 357, 363
Whitmer, Peter, 223, 316–17
Whitmire, Carol, 155, 156
Who Do You Trust?, 59
“Why Anti-Gringo Winds Often Blow South of the Border” (Thompson), 76–77
Wild One, The, 1, 97
Wilkie, Curtis, 125, 191, 192, 194, 201, 289–90, 293
Williams, Tennessee, 254–55, 256
Willis, Anne, see Noonan, Anne Willis
Wilmington News Journal, 194
Wilson, Edmund, 41
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson), 41
Wolfe, Thomas, 330
Wolfe, Tom, 93–94, 100, 102, 109, 110, 130, 139, 140, 143, 149, 151, 161, 166, 176, 192, 224, 226, 227, 315, 333, 342–43
appreciation of Thompson written by, 360–61
New Journalism and, 77–78, 342
Woods, Crawford, 176–77
Woodward, Bob, 205–7
Woody Creek, Colo., xviii, 114–15, 154
Thompson’s first stay in, 85–88, 89
Thompson’s neighbors in, 244, 297–99, 324, 354
Thompson’s piece about, 210
Thompson’s property in, see Owl Farm
urbanization of, 298
Woody Creek Tavern, 298, 310–11, 320, 328, 336–37, 346, 347, 356, 363
World of Sex, The (Miller), 67
World War II, 5–6, 7, 10, 24, 25, 62, 154
“Xanadu,” 33
Yale Club Bar, 43
Yale University, 40, 41, 42
Young, J. R., 140
“You’re a Whole Different Person When You’re Scared,” 347
Youth International Party (Yippies), 124
Zahn, George “Junkie George,” 111
Zaire, 226–29, 230, 233, 234, 263
Zevon, Warren, 324, 329, 330, 347
Ziegler, Ron, 190
Zion, Sidney, 135, 148, 151