Fear and Loathing in America

Fear and Loathing in America

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 1116

ISBN-13: 1439126364

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From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years—addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.


Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

Nineteenth-Century British Perspectives on Spanish America

Author: Marisa Palacios Knox

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-03-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1003855547

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The sources in this volume focus on Great Britain’s moral, financial, and diplomatic interventions and ambitions in Latin America. It begins during the wars of independence spanning 1810-1825, when Foreign Secretary George Canning prematurely declared, "Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English." The independence movements of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, as well as their ancient past, inspired Romantic writers such as Anna Letitia Barbauld and spurred British military support and political debate, as attested by mercenary Richard Vowell’s Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela and James Mill's "Emancipation of Spanish America."


American Exceptionalism Vol 1

American Exceptionalism Vol 1

Author: Timothy Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1351576917

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American exceptionalism the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks to understand how this belief began, how it developed and why it remains popular.


Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America (Vol.1-3)

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America (Vol.1-3)

Author: Alexander von Humboldt

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-07-09

Total Pages: 1414

ISBN-13:

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, during the years 1799-1804 is a three-volume account of an expedition taken from Spain to South America by naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. The authors visited Venezuela, Cuba, Andes, Mexico and USA where they collected the material and made extensive notes. Their joint effort to record a memoir of this great expedition is quite interesting and valuable because it contain specific documentation of their scientific observations, but it also presents an intriguing and romantic work with many poetic descriptions of nature and the people who lived in the areas he visited.


The Bookseller

The Bookseller

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1883

Total Pages: 1638

ISBN-13:

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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.


The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 0691185271

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 21: Index, Vols. 1-20, will be forthcoming.


A Natural Calling

A Natural Calling

Author: Anthony W. D. Larkum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-07-06

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 1402092334

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From 1965–1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Later in 1981, when I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and renewed my contacts with Christ’s College, my friend and colleague David Coombe, a Fellow of Christ’s College, informed me that a collection of letters of Charles Darwin had just been - covered in the Library storeroom, underneath the College. I had always maintained an interest in Charles Darwin, from the early age of thirteen, when I had rst read his books, with I might say some dif culty! This collection was the 155 letters of Charles Darwin to his second cousin William Darwin Fox, which had been given in trust to the College, in 1909, by members of the Fox family at the time of the Darwin Centenary celebrations. I was allowed access to these 155 letters and at that time made my own tr- scriptions. It seemed to me that this was a magni cent account of the lives of two naturalists of the nineteenth century, starting at the time that they were at Christ’s together, in 1828, and going to 1880 when W D Fox died – just two years short of the death of Charles Darwin in 1882. Of course this valuable resource had not gone unnoticed before. Darwin’s son, Francis Darwin had been given the letters in the 1880s, when he was preparing his Life and Letters of Charles Darwin in 3 volumes.