Generation of swine : tales of shame and degradation in the '80s

‘Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like “certain death” and “total failure” and the idea of “a doomed generation”. But not me. I am comfortable with these themes.’ Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the __San Francisco Examiner__ for the last two years. Those columns are collected here to offer a chronicle of the adventures of a __Generation of Swine__. The incomparable ‘Dr Gonzo’ has journeyed no small distance in search of intelligent life and reports back, instead, on the demented state of current events. He keeps tabs on the 1998 presidential race, quotes from the Bible (reference books in hotel rooms are supplied exclusively by the Gideons) and asks why the President appears to be a hundred and twenty-eight years old. "He is working from a dementia that no one in his right mind would want to share. It is the dementia, however, that makes Thompson great" —__Playboy__ "His hallucinated vision strikes one as having been, after all, the sanest" —Nelson Algren **Hunter S. Thompson** was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include __Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas__, __Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone__, __Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72__, __The Rum Diary__, and __Better than Sex__. He died in 2005. Cover Title Page Author biography Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction Saturday Night in the City Showdown in the Pig Palace Nixon and the Whale Woman The Hellfire Club Gary Hart Talks Politics A Generation of Swine Buffalo Gores a Visitor The Geek from Coral Gables 666 Pennsylvania Ave. Death to the Weird Bad Nerves in Fat City Full-Time Scrambling The Worst People in the World The Beast with Three Backs The Doctor Will See You Now Revenge of the Fish Heads Après Moi, le Déluge The Dim and Dirty Road Off With Their Heads The American Century? Crank Time in Tripoli Meat Sickness Last Train from Chicago Kill Them Before They Eat Four Million Thugs Memo from the War Room The Gonzo Salvage Co. Salvage Is Not Looting Dawn at the Boca Chica Let the Cheap Dogs Eat Ox Butchered in Tripoli Never Get Off the Boat They Called him Deep Throat The Pro-Flogging View Just Another Terrorist The Woman from Kiev Two More Years They All Drowned Four More Games Last Dance in Dumb Town Rise of the T.V. Preachers Dealing with Pigs Deported to Malaysia A Clean, Ill-Lighted Place Slow Day at the Airport Lester Maddox Lives Sexy Drugs and Rock and Roll Welcome to the Tunnel Strictly Business Midnight in the Desert Down to a Sunless Sea The Turk Comes to T.V. News Bull Market on the Strip The South African Problem Loose Cannon on the Deck Let the Good Times Roll A Death in the Family Back to the Ormsby House The Garden of Agony White Trash with Money The Lord and a Good Lawyer Ronald Reagan is Doomed God Bless Colonel North Orgy of the Dead The Year of the Pig Mixup at the Hospital The Gizzard of Darkness Crazy Patrick and Big Al Trapped in Harding Park Expelled from the System Gone With the Wind New Blood on The Tracks The Lake of Fire So Long, George Doomed Love in the Rockies The Scum of the Earth The Losers' Club The Loved Ones The Death Ship The American Dream Caligula and the Seven Dwarfs Memo from the Queer Desk The Time of the Geek A Wild and Crazy Guy Ollie's Choice The Trickle-Down Theory Four More Years Dance of the Seven Dwarfs It Was You, Charlie Fat Men on Horseback Cowboys at Sea Blame it on Dead Bill The Last Taxi to Scotland Swine of the Week Here Come de Judge Wooing the Degenerate Vote The Weak and the Weird The Time Has Come The Worm Turns The End of an Era The Other George Bush Copyright page