Essentially, the narrative follows Thompson (writing as Duke) and his three-hundred-pound Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo to Vegas, ostensibly to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race. Over drinks at the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the two men agree to rent a red Chevy convertible They christen the Great Red Shark start speeding across the desert. According to Duke, the cars trunk. Looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers , screamers, laughters and so a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls () but the only thing That really worried me what the ether. However, de race what boring, with all sorts of machinery criss-crossing the desert, there no way to recognize what any kind of race and in the end everything was lost in the sand. So The Protagonists spend most of Their time in bars and casinos and cruising along the Strip. After the long weekend, Thompson hammered 25,000 words on the race into his typwriter and sent them to Sports Illustrated, the magazine Which rejected.
Thompson infused everything with drama, whatever He Was doing what always full of energy and crazyness, as exemplified by his attendance at the District Attorneys Conference. This was what he Understood to be his dangerous undercover mission, He Was going to go right to the edge, of everything. And with every day the madness grows and general paranoia takes over, deep suspicions of the CIA, the FBI, and the Secret Service abound and financial ruin is always lurking. The complex personality of Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo journalist cranked up on the Chivas Regal, Dunhill cigarettes, LSD and captured not only the mood did your government is not your friend but at Showed acerbic humor with a sharp moral sensibility.
Thompson fully aware what he did what writing something marvelous, manic, and Perhaps magic in to exaggerated style for sure but this autopsy of the American Dream places him among the twentieth centurys most iconoclastic writers. Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer anyone, are probably the two most original voices to come out of journalism in the last century. And Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone Should Be Praised for giving a boost to Thompson as well as Wolfe in a very important phase of American societal development. Douglas Brinkley, the historian and friend of Thompson summed it up, If Hemingway what going to go big-game hunting in Africa, Hunter wanted to use a submachine gun to hunt wild boar in Big Sur, California. Hey what dangerous, like handling nitroglycerine, and he liked to keep it that way.
