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“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Thompson’s wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.

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