[The Gonzo Papers 03] • Songs of the Doomed by Thompson, Hunter S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Editor’s Note Part One: Author’s Note

Let the Trials Begin Electricity Last Train from Camelot

Note from Ralph Steadman

Part Two: The Fifties: Last Rumble in Fat City

Tarred and Feathered at the Jersey Shore Saturday Night at the Riviera Prince Jellyfish

Hit Him Again, Jack, He’s Crazy Interview Cherokee Park

Fleeing New York

Part Three: The Sixties: What the Hell? it’s Only Rock and Roll . . .

Letter to Angus Cameron The Rum Diary Revisited: The Puerto Rican Problem The Kennedy Assassination Back to the U.S.A. Hell’s Angels: Long Nights, Ugly Days, Orgy of the Doomed . . . Midnight on the Coast Highway Ken Kesey: Walking with the King LSD-25: Res Ipsa Loquitor Chicago 1968: Death to the Weird First Visit with Mescalito

Part Four: The Seventies: Reaping the Whirlwind, Riding the Tiger

Iguana Project Never Apologize, Never Explain Vegas Witchcraft High-Water Mark Fear and Loathing Lies—It Was All Lies—I Couldn’t Help Myself Ed Muskie Doomed by Ibogaine: Bizarre Drug Plot Revealed Washington Politics Summit Conference in Elko: Secret Gathering of the Power Elite Opening Statement: HST Rolling Stone: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here Dance of the Doomed Checking into the Lane Xang Whooping It Up with the War Junkies Confidential Memo to Colonel Vo Don Giang Memo to Jim Silberman on the Death of the American Dream Letter to Russell Chatham

Part Five: The Eighties: How Much Money do you Have?

Welcome to the ’80s Love on the Palm Beach Express: The Pulitzer Divorce Trial Sugarloaf Key: Tales of the Swine Family The Silk Road: Fast Boats on the Ocean at Night

Fishhead Boys The Mariel Boat Lift The Murder of Colonel Evans

Letter to Ralph Steadman Letter to Ken Kesey Last Memo from the National Affairs Desk Memo from the Sports Desk Wild Sex in Sausalito The Dukakis Problem: Another Vicious Beating for the New Whigs Secret Cables to Willie Hearst

Re: Qaddafi Re: The Column

San Francisco Examiner Columns The New Dumb Fear and Loathing in Sacramento

Strange Ride to Reno Amor Vincit Omnia The Death of Russell Chatham Editor’s Note

Whiskey Business I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll Community of Whores Return to the Riviera Cafe Avery: Making Sense of the ’60s German Decade: The Rise of the Fourth Reich Turbo Must Die Memo to Jay Johnson, Night Editor, San Francisco Examiner Warning Issued on Cocaine

Part Six: Welcome to the Nineties: Welcome to Jail

Editor’s Note Nothing But Crumbs Arrest Warrant and Charges Beware This Is a Political Trial . . . Thompson Hit with 5 Felonies Memo to Hal Haddon: Attack Now The Art of Hitting the One Iron Motion and Order to Dismiss the Case Hunter Hails Legal Triumph for Americans Press Release, Owl Farm, 5/31/90 Final Analysis: Gerald Goldstein, Esq. A Letter to The Champion: A Publication of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Keith Stroup, Executive Director Later That Year . . . Author’s Note

Footnotes

Chapter 28

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Chapter 39

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Chapter 58

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Chapter 70

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