Memoirs, Journalists 

Detractors and fans alike questioned the probability that Hunter S. Thompson would ever write a memoir. While his penchant for saving a copy of every letter he's ever written might be termed hubristic, Thompson often professes he's incapable of summarizing his life and career. This, combined with the fact that Hunter is intensely private about his relationship with both his childhood and adult families; that a sort of transcript of his life via three volumes of said letters was already on a publication schedule (THE PROUD HIGHWAY (Volume I), FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA (Volume II) and an as-yet Untitled Volume III); and that his productivity as a writer seemed on the wane, would seem to make the likelihood of the Gonzo journalist encapsulating his life extremely small.

But THE KINGDOM OF FEAR dispels any doubt that we are to be treated to a defiant, and resounding, Thompson-esque treatment of his life - in his own inimitable, irascible, style. Consider it the evolution of an outlaw. Thompson chronicles his life as a rebel, from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid questioning authority; to a style-defying, law-breaking journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. The ride is a bumpy, boisterous, tunnel-visioned one - signature Hunter S. Thompson. From details of his life as "Billy the Kid of Louisville," to his job as Night Manager of the legendary O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco, to his experience in the riots at the Chicago Convention, to running for Sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, The Kingdom Of Fear offers delicious, dangerous new details of electrifying professional risks, rousing attempted (and some,achieved) political coups, and outrageous personal antics of the man who became known as the Father of Gonzo Journalism.