Intro
Hunter S. Thompson was a great American journalist that just wanted to see this country
bring peace, now I will go through and tell you why he had a impact on America and will
critically analyze him and his work and just tell you some crazy things he did in the 60s -
90s.
In 1968 Dr. Thompson was given a assignment to follow the freaks of America that were
Known as the "Hells Angels" a California biker gang, Thompson thought that this would be
The ground breaking thing that would make him be a famous writer, and it was but it was
not what he wanted, he was happy with the work, yes but not the way he wanted it to be.
He was not paid enough, he thought he was ripped off by the publishers but it still made
him a known name in the writing industry because it was the grip taking piece that
America needed to know, it showed the worst piece of scum that was hiding in our own
backyard. "His Hell's angels documents just how the group was created by the conventional
media and it's "Rape mania"-what Thompson calls a "public breakthrough, by the means of
rape, on the scale of The Beatles and Bob Dylan" (Klinkowits. "New Journalism" DISCovering
Authors. 2003)
The story follows Dr. Thompson adventures with Hell angles members Little Jesus,The
Gimp,Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hamebone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Duck,Fat
Freddy, Filthy phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester ( I want to make a comic book
about this guy), Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more but those
were the ones that Thompson put focus on. There was one incident when he saw one of the
members (Tiny) beat his wife and dog in front of many members and Thompson proceeded
to walk over and say "Only a ...
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This book was the best and the real impact of the style that Thompson was known for in
Journalism called "Gonzo" and Thompson didn't mean for it to be but he went with it and
fell inlove with it after a while and this was the first book to be known for Gonzo and it is
always called his best work. (Overview of Hunter S(tocking) Thompson." DISCovering
Authors. Detroit: Gale, 2003.) In the 90's there was a movie version of the book that was
went by the same name starring Johnny Depp as Duke which Thompson was greatly
involved in the production and even forced the directors to change when the original
director, Alex Cox, wanted to take Thompsons speech about the waves and make it an
animation. Thompson truly loved his work and didn't want anyone changing it in anyway
that would hurt the story or the feel of the book.
It was apparent that Thompson was the one giving the orders, he claimed in Reign of the Vigilantes that “they met 75-80 men coming to help them”, (Beckman) and that he turned them back saying that “the murderers had escaped”. (Becman) Had this been true, Thompson would have welcomed the help locating and apprehending the men. Thompson also told a man named Long in his party, to shoot and kill young Mr. Langdon if he tried to escape. Obviously Thompson was in charge of the men, and had no fears of prosecution. According to the Other Side: Vigilante Justice-part 1, “Thompson’s political connections were formidab...
His first famous and well paying book was The Spy. The book was modeled after Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Tails. The Spy was a groundbreaker b...
Kurt Vonnegut Served as a sensitive cell in the organism of American Society during the 1960's. His work alerted the public about the absurdity of modern warfare and an increasingly mechanized and impersonal society in which humans were essentially worthless and degenerated. The satirical tone and sardonic humor allowed people to read his works and laugh at their own misfortune.
Gonzo journalism tends to favor style over accuracy and often uses personal experiences and emotions to provide context for the topic or event being covered. It disregards the 'polishe...
Kurt Vonnegut is an impressive author who combines comic fiction and social satire in his novels. He often writes about the main character Kilgore Trout, who seems to be more like Vonnegut’s alter ego. He has written many books including Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos, Bluebeard, and Fates Worse Than Death.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 11, 1922. After attending Cornell University from 1941-43 Vonnegut served in World War II and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. As a prisoner of war, he survived the fire bombing of Dresden by Allied forces on 13 February, 1945 in an underground meat-storage cellar. When he emerged the next morning, Vonnegut was put to work pulling corpses from the ruins of the desolated city once known as "the Venice of the North." In one night the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden killed more people than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, more than 135,000 in all. Vonnegut's first-hand experiences of this, one of the darkest episodes in human history, would later provide the basis for his most influential work, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), though it would take him more than twenty years to come to terms with his wartime experiences and complete the novel.
Henry David Thoreau was great person. He didn't judge anyone for their actio0n that were wrong in his opinion. As already mentioned he appreciated everyone not just the ones that bought his books. In my opinion I think it would be a great experience to live back in the day when Henry David Thoreau lived to see how much the world has changed.
author of this book. He has also has written many other good books such as The Grapes
...efore people became impressed with his writing. Only when the man himself was forgotten did the people begin to appreciate his musings.
Max Perkins once wrote to Thomas Wolfe that "[t]here could be nothing so important as a book can be." Perkins lived and died believing this, as A. Scott Berg attests with his book, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. Berg's book begins by describing a rainy evening in mid-Manhattan where a class of budding editors and publishers awaits the infamous Maxwell Perkins for a discussion on editing. Here Berg reveals Perkins as "unlikely for his profession: he was a terrible speller, his punctuation was idiosyncratic," and he was an awfully slow reader by his own admission (4). But none came near Perkins's "record for finding gifted authors and getting them into print"(4). Perkins defines editing to the enthusiastic class, not as being a great speller or grammarian, but as knowing "what to publish, how to get it, and what to do to help it achieve the largest readership"(4). This introduction leads the reader into a long flashback of Perkins's life as an editor, the risks he took with books by new talents and the undying support he gave artists, proving Perkins to be "America's greatest editor."
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writer as well as an individual. This pleased the audience very much because most of them are
create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject,
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