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Timothy Denevi

The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it

Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw through Richard Nixon's treacherous populism and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits sustained by drugs mania and little else. For ten years he cast aside his old ambitions troubled his family and likely hastened his own decline along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history.

This timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics and one writer with the guts to tell the truth.>

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : NOV 5, 2019
  • Imprint : Publicaffairs
  • Page Extent : 416
  • Binding : TPB
  • ISBN : 9781541768017
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Timothy Denevi

Timothy Denevi is an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. His first book Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD was published in 2014. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and his work has appeared in the Atlantic Time the Paris Review and New York Magazine among others. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Tim lives near Washington DC with his wife and children.

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