Raising Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson lives on. In the play, Gonzo: A Brutal Chrysalis, performer and writer “B. Duke” incarnates the Last Free American Writer as he was during the intense and difficult years 1968-1971.
The play’s publicity package tells it like this: “Fresh from his breakthrough success chronicling — and nearly being beaten to death by — the Hells Angels, Thompson embarks on a one- and two-man war on the Death of the American Dream. From Big Oil and the Big Three to the NRA and the Kentucky Derby, Richard Nixon and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the usual suspects are strafed and castrated by the Man Who Would Be Raoul.
“What he could not conquer from without, he co-opted from within by becoming the single greatest and most effective danger that anyone before or since has been to the bipolar establishment that is American politics.”
I would only add that on November 11, 1971 Rolling Stone published the first installment of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And in the following year, they ran his Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72. A generation was thus given an opportunity to learn the truth about America in the only way it could truly be told, through a cracked acidic lens that blurred fiction and fact and came to be called “Gonzo Journalism.”
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