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Fear and Loathing in America

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by Hunter S. Thompson

Mann, Herbie, xviii, 234, 280, 343–44

  Martin, Ian, 459–60, 517–18

  Meany, George, 92, 315, 495, 497n

  Meggyesy, Dave, 367, 424, 451

  “Memoirs of a Brown Buffalo” (Acosta), 397

  Mencken, H. L., xv, xvii, xix

  Meredith, Scott, 13–14, 21, 28

  Metesky, George, 586, 665

  Miami, Fla., 98, 490, 495–96

  Michigan, University of, 662–63

  Middletown Daily Record, 75, 195, 274

  Mills, Wilbur, 58

  Mint 400 motorcycle race, 375–77, 387–88, 402, 418–19, 442, 458, 730

  Mondale, Walter F., 326–27, 355–57, 595

  Moore, Mike, 307–9

  Morton, Thruston, 70, 92

  Mount, Doug, 474, 546–47

  “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Dylan), 5, 343–44

  “Murder of Ruben Salazar” (Thompson), 424, 448–49

  Murphy, Dennis, 214, 227, 251–52, 277

  Murphy, Mike, 408, 410, 423

  Murray, William, 174–75

  Muskie, Edmund, xx, 140, 357, 365, 472, 477, 494, 496, 520, 643

  “My Gun Problem … and Theirs” (Thompson), 169, 172, 174, 179, 183, 189–90, 196, 200–203, 216, 225–26, 266, 272, 299, 334, 424–26

  Nation, The, xv, 13, 20–22, 49, 56, 91, 164, 186, 189, 221, 254, 335–36, 602

  National District Attorneys’ Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, xix, 377–78, 383–84, 387, 442

  National Observer, The, xv, 20, 43, 49, 70, 109, 186, 251, 257, 277, 303, 336, 351, 442n, 456, 596–97, 601–4, 720

  National Rifle Association (NRA), 102–7, 122, 135–36, 138, 141, 161–62, 165–66, 169, 172, 174, 179, 183, 196, 200–203, 205, 225, 325, 334

  NBC News, 70

  Neftzger, Carrie, 594–95

  Nesbit, Lynn, 44, 50, 83–84, 91, 103–9, 121–23, 135, 146–47, 170, 178–79, 203, 211–12, 263–64, 266–67, 297, 299–301, 310, 319, 365–71, 377–78, 384, 397, 403, 406, 419–20, 431–34, 441, 491, 497, 519, 526–27, 532, 577, 589, 610, 612, 617, 636, 640–42, 646–49, 651, 654–56, 667, 670, 677, 691, 708–9

  New American Review, 316–17

  New Hampshire, xvii, 10, 33–35, 41–42, 44, 49, 51, 93–95, 99–100, 102–3, 149, 164–65, 172, 218, 334, 418, 422, 424–26, 465–69, 502, 612, 639, 719–21

  New Journalism, The (Wolfe and Johnson), 526

  New Republic, The, xv, 91, 111, 186, 351n

  Newsweek, 12, 73–74, 86, 91, 94, 131, 139, 141, 186, 196, 213n, 454, 480, 492, 502, 535, 558, 612, 617, 620–21, 629, 640, 660–61, 681–82, 689–90, 694

  New York City, xv, 6, 14–15, 21–22, 24, 27, 33–35, 42, 54, 57, 67, 76, 89, 93, 108–12, 125, 140–41, 143–46, 149, 164, 212–13, 221, 225n, 277, 296

  New Yorker, The, 292n, 420, 456n

  New York Post, 221, 451n, 466n, 524

  New York Times, The, xv, xviii–xviii, 12–13, 15, 20, 33, 41, 58, 62, 76, 91–92, 96, 101, 112, 128–29, 162n, 185–87, 218, 220, 254, 270, 292n, 296, 301, 306, 313–14, 336, 345, 352, 356, 364, 374, 404–5, 410–11, 413, 421, 439, 454, 456, 467, 492, 521, 534, 566–67, 573, 591n, 593, 633, 651–52, 655, 657–58, 664, 678–79, 680n

  Nguyen Van Thieu, see Thieu, Nguyen Van

  Nitze, Paul, 18, 209–10, 215, 229, 289

  Nixon, Richard M., xvii, xx–xx, 1, 16–17, 33–35, 41–44, 49–51, 61, 76, 93–95, 98–100, 102, 105, 108, 113, 122, 124–26, 128, 131–32, 134, 136–37, 147, 149, 151, 160–61, 164, 169–71, 176, 187–88, 200, 205, 216, 218, 227, 245, 247, 250, 256, 260, 263, 266, 268, 292, 294, 296, 310–11, 313–17, 332–35, 339, 364, 404–5, 418, 421–26, 438, 443, 451–52, 456n, 461, 468–69, 475, 479, 487, 490–95, 497–99, 503, 505, 519, 528–33, 535, 546n, 550, 553, 556, 569, 574n, 575, 577–79, 581–83, 586–90, 592–95, 601–2, 604, 621n, 623, 635, 637n, 638, 656n, 658, 659n, 668n, 683n, 686–88, 711, 712n, 713, 721–22, 730

  Noonan, Bill, 182, 246, 366, 374, 410, 415, 681, 683, 702–3

  Norman, Geoffrey, 641n, 650, 661–62

  Notre Dame, University of, 685–86

  Nugent, Pat, 60

  Oakland Raiders, 505, 560, 565–66, 687

  Obey, David, 594–95

  O’Brien, Lawrence, 211, 315–16, 473, 484, 530

  O’Connor, Thomas H., 180, 187–88, 271

  Olay, Lionel, 399, 449

  Oliphant, Pat, xvi, 292, 294–95, 306–7, 310, 314, 317, 664–66

  “Only Serious People Can Laugh” (Thompson), 329–30

  On Press (Wicker), 411

  On the Road (Kerouac), 44n, 421

  “On the Road” (Kuralt CBS News segments), 68, 188

  Orth, Franklin, 104–5, 107

  Other America, The (Harrington), 24

  Overseas Press Club, 27

  Pageant, xvii, 33, 35, 41, 51, 76, 93–94, 99, 102, 162–63, 424

  Palevsky, Max, xiii, 361–62, 365, 380–81, 416, 453, 455, 544–45, 563–64, 566, 600–601

  Palmer, Bud, 61–63, 128–29, 193

  Palmer, Laura, 613, 620, 622, 625, 628–29

  Parker, Dan, 513, 649

  Paxton, Tom, 132, 483

  Penguin Books, 91

  Penzer, Mark, 418–20

  Peretz, Martin, 556–57

  Perian, Carl, 148–49, 179–80, 202

  “Perla” (Acosta), 39, 43

  Perla Is a Pig (Acosta), 255, 272

  Perry, Charles, 349, 457, 513

  Peterson, Carrie, 318–19

  Petitclerc, Denne, 351, 353

  Picasso, Pablo, 501, 694n

  Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 50

  Pierce, David, 57–58, 172

  Pitkin County, Colo., xviii, 45, 57, 68–69, 96–97, 232, 238–39, 250, 259, 279, 285, 289–91, 298–99, 301, 312, 327, 333–34, 363n, 366n, 517, 529, 721

  Playboy, xii, xvi, 92n, 164, 167, 171–72, 178–79, 183–84, 186–87, 190–91, 195, 216, 221–23, 225–26, 257, 260, 266–67, 269, 284, 287, 367, 424, 519, 524–25, 531, 538, 565, 596–97, 641, 661, 677, 681, 728

  Plimpton, George, 25, 571, 598

  Podhoretz, Norman, 60–61

  Police Chief, The, 316, 323–26

  Politics of Ecstasy, The (Leary), 170–71

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 184

  Powell, Jody, 699–700, 706

  “Presenting: The Richard Nixon Doll” (Thompson), xvii, 424

  “Press in Chicago, The” (Thompson), 140

  Price, Raymond K., 41, 317, 404, 531

  “Prince Jellyfish” (Thompson), xv

  Prisendorf, Tony, 451–52, 455–57

  Private Eye, xvi, 295, 306, 310

  Profitt, Nicholas, 660, 681, 683

  Proud Highway, The (Thompson), xii, xv, xxi

  Pump House Gang, The (Wolfe), 143, 266–67

  Quinn, Sally, xxi, 536, 642–48, 655, 657

  Radford, Arthur W., 101–2

  Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Wolfe), 337–38

  “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (Dylan), 5

  Rafelson, Bob, 365–66, 399–400, 415, 426, 432–33, 667–68, 670, 692–96, 719

  Ramparts, xvi, 13, 15, 33, 65, 120, 122, 130, 141, 168, 170–71, 186, 222–23, 256–57, 260, 287, 293, 311, 354, 369

  Random House, xii–xii, xvii–xvii, 12, 14, 18, 21–22, 29, 44, 49–50, 57, 69–72, 85, 89–93, 96–98, 100, 102–3, 108–9, 119–20, 123, 125, 127, 131–32, 134–35, 140–44, 146, 149, 160–61, 163, 165, 168–69, 173, 178, 182, 185, 190, 195, 205–6, 213, 215, 224–25, 227–28, 232, 249–50, 256–57, 267, 272, 275–77, 279, 297, 312, 318–19, 327, 331, 337–38, 353, 367, 369–70, 374, 376–79, 381, 387–88, 395, 398, 400, 403, 405, 407, 409, 416–17, 420, 422, 427–28, 430, 432n, 433–35, 442–43, 449–50, 457–59, 466–67, 475, 477, 491, 510–11, 514–16, 519, 521–26, 545, 549, 553, 643, 649, 666, 680n, 717, 724

  Rape of the Virgin Butterfly, The (Smith), 539

  Ray, Elizabeth “Lee” (aunt), 203–4, 344–45

  Ray, John (uncle), 84

  Ray, Velma H., 702


  Raza, La, 86, 186, 253, 285, 362

  Reagan, Ronald, 80, 166, 240, 583, 681

  Realist, The, 16n, 171, 232, 280, 327–28, 577

  “Real Nixon, The” (Thompson), 452

  Republican National Conventions, 49, 70–71, 98, 100, 102, 109, 485, 490–91, 714

  Reston, James “Scotty,” Jr., 218, 292, 374, 381, 404–5, 624

  Reuther, Walter, 49, 209–10, 212, 215, 556n

  Ribicoff, Abraham, 127–28

  Ridley, Clifford, 149, 257, 602–4

  Rinzler, Alan, 379, 382, 388, 403, 428, 433, 441, 447, 449, 474–76, 491–92, 522, 575–77, 589, 648–50

  Rivers, Mendel, 60

  Robbie, Joe, 545, 558

  Robbins, Tom, xxii, 683–85

  Rock, Arthur, 354–55, 360–61, 364–65, 380

  Rockefeller, Nelson A., 494, 583, 638n, 647, 653

  Rodino, Peter J., 587–88

  Rogers, Deborah, 517–18

  Rolling Stone, xvii–xvii, 186, 226, 261, 288, 289–91, 298, 313, 327–28, 334–36, 338–40, 342–44, 348–49, 351, 354, 355n, 356, 359–63, 365–71, 374, 376–79, 382–83, 385–88, 390–97, 399–400, 402–3, 407, 409–14, 418, 422–23, 425, 427–28, 430, 433, 435, 440–44, 446–58, 460, 465–66, 469–70, 472, 474–75, 480–81, 484–86, 488, 490–93, 496–97, 500–503, 512–15, 520–22, 524–25, 530, 532–34, 536–37, 539, 541, 544–45, 554, 558–60, 562–66, 573–75, 578–79, 581, 587, 589–95, 602, 609–16, 619–21, 628, 630–33, 635–36, 639–42, 648, 654, 656–69, 677, 687–89, 691, 696, 698–99, 701, 707–11, 718

  Romanowski, Al, 542

  Romney, George, 42

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 493, 513n, 727n

  Rosetti, Thomas E., 302–3

  Roth, Philip, 184

  Roybal, Edward R., 39, 240

  Royko, Mike, 210, 501

  Rudd, Hughes, 129–31, 139–41, 175–76, 188, 191, 193, 200, 208–10, 212–13, 229–31, 241–43, 299, 304–6, 498, 524–25, 536, 675, 727

  Rum Diary, The (Thompson), xv, 29, 33, 36, 38, 58–59, 108, 111, 131–35, 142, 168–70, 177–79, 249–51, 262–63, 353, 397–402, 417–18, 426, 429, 431–33, 720

  Rusk, Dean, 16

  Ruwe, Nick, 93–95, 574

  Sack, John, 366, 369–70

  Salant, Richard, 209–10, 212

  Salazar, Ruben, xix, 359–62, 366–68, 379, 386–87, 393–96, 397n, 403, 406, 412, 424, 446–49, 561n

  Salinger, J. D., xv

  Salinger, Pierre, 539, 679, 686–87

  Salisbury, Harrison, 218, 421, 679

  Salter, James, xvi

  Sampson, Karen, 53–54

  Sanchez, David, 87, 112

  Sand, George (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant), 74

  Sanders, Ed, 441–42, 456

  San Francisco, Calif., xiv–xiv, xviii, 5, 7–11, 41, 60, 70, 98, 100, 102, 109, 157, 171, 173–74, 214, 279, 287, 288

  San Francisco Chronicle, xiv–xiv, 5, 8, 62, 91, 101, 186–87, 196, 310–11, 351n, 534n, 602

  San Francisco Examiner, The, 451

  San Juan Star, 66, 75, 131, 401

  Sapper, Doug, 629–30, 689–90

  Saturday Evening Post, The, xv

  Scanlan’s Monthly, xvi, xix, 120, 221, 247, 256–57, 260, 269–70, 273–74, 283–84, 287, 309, 314, 319–22, 324–26, 328, 332, 334, 336–38, 340, 342, 357–59, 362, 365–68, 371, 373–74, 389, 395–96, 424, 451, 514, 679n

  Scanlon, Paul, 349, 492–93, 496, 513, 613, 620–21

  Schine, G. David, 60

  Schneider, Bert, 397–402, 432–33

  “Scum Also Rises, The” (Thompson), 595

  Searle, Ronald, 292, 294, 306

  Select, John, 689–91

  “Selling of the My Lai Massacre, The” (Eszterhas), 440

  Semonin, Paul, 12, 201, 277, 429, 431, 577–78

  Semple, Robert B., Jr., 41

  Sergeant, The (Murphy), 227, 252

  Sevareid, Eric, 69, 196, 210, 212, 624

  Shapiro, Selma, xiii–xiii, 12, 57–59, 123–25, 182–85, 190, 249, 351, 353–54, 385, 667–68

  Shaw, Clay, 64n

  Sherrill, Robert, 201–3, 225

  Shir-Cliff, Bernard, 15–17, 26, 46–48, 56, 59–60, 71–72, 91, 100, 123, 168–70, 177–78, 205, 211–12, 227–29, 262–64, 432, 434, 469–71

  Shriver, Sargent, 487, 494, 661–62

  Shultz, Larry, 55

  Silberman, Jim, xii–xii, xix, 18, 22–26, 44–45, 50, 69–72, 89–93, 97–98, 100–103, 109–11, 122–24, 143–44, 146, 160–66, 168–70, 177–79, 185–87, 195–97, 205–6, 211–12, 215–17, 257–69, 297–99, 306, 312–13, 331–35, 337, 340, 354, 367–70, 377–79, 381–88, 392, 395–97, 402–3, 405–10, 417–18, 420–29, 431, 433–35, 441–42, 458, 470, 475, 491, 510–12, 521–23, 539, 545–49, 589, 649, 656, 666–70, 717–23

  Sinclair, Upton, xviii

  Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara, 90, 165, 204

  Skiers’ Gazette, 164, 224, 307

  Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 527–28

  Slick, Grace, xiv, 9, 235n

  Smith, Jim, 64, 74

  Smith, John Macauley, 38

  Smith, Valerie, 539

  Solheim, Michael, 280, 324, 514, 541–42, 679

  Solotaroff, Ted, 683–85

  Songs of the Doomed (Thompson), 280, 717

  Sorensen, Theodore, 48–50, 223

  Sorrels, Rosalie, 278, 280, 324, 521

  Spider magazine, 99

  Spock, Benjamin, 92

  Sports Illustrated, 375–77, 379, 382, 387–88, 418–20, 435, 729–30

  Stanton, Frank, 193, 210, 212, 242

  Steadman, Ralph, xvi–xvi, 245, 292, 295–97, 304, 306, 309–10, 313–14, 319–22, 326, 341, 372, 388, 427, 449, 457–59, 490–92, 517, 534, 537, 548, 571, 589, 688

  Stearns, Rick, 482, 486, 496, 499, 530–31, 570, 581, 643, 670, 698

  Steele, Robert, 395, 660

  Steinbeck, John, xxi

  Stermer, Dugald, 223, 283

  Stevenson, Adlai, 209, 260, 424, 445, 707

  Stout, Bill, 213

  Stout, Richard, 612

  Straight Arrow Books, xvii, 354n, 361, 418, 427, 441, 474, 476, 491–92, 497, 515, 524–25, 528, 553, 559, 565, 575, 589, 611n, 636, 643

  Stranahan, George, 78, 82, 381, 408, 442, 551–52, 703

  “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” (Thompson), 361–62, 366–68

  Streshinsky, Ted, 198–99

  Strugnell, Lynne, 159–60

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 15

  Styron, William, 184–85

  Sullivan, Ed, 27, 92

  “Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy, The” (Thompson), xvi

  Terkel, Studs, xv, 124, 193, 196, 210

  Thibeau, Tim, 167, 189, 272, 430

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, 343n, 621, 623

  Thompson, Davison (brother), 51, 67, 77–78, 136–38, 142, 172–73, 275, 284, 293, 366n, 374, 702–3

  Thompson, Jim (brother), 14, 15, 24, 28, 36, 41–42, 50–52, 67–68, 77–78, 83–84, 137–38, 142, 173–74, 274–75, 284, 293, 314, 374

  Thompson, Juan (son), xxi, xxv, 2, 37–38, 51–52, 57, 81, 110, 137, 140, 142, 146, 172–74, 181, 226, 443, 462, 506, 509, 548, 555, 674, 683, 693, 703, 728

  Thompson, Sandy (wife), xvi, xxi, xxv, 12–13, 15, 37–38, 41–42, 51–52, 57, 71, 76, 101, 112, 142, 149, 167, 173–75, 177, 182, 185–86, 191, 197–99, 203, 214, 226–27, 229–31, 246, 257, 261, 275–76, 278, 284, 286–87, 293, 337–38, 353, 374, 379, 391–92, 410, 415, 441, 443, 448, 454, 506, 513, 517, 525–27, 529–30, 532, 539–40, 548, 555, 558, 581, 591–92, 600, 617, 621, 642, 649–50, 668, 672, 683, 687, 693, 700, 704, 728

  Thompson, Virginia (mother), 14–15, 28, 41–42, 66–68, 84, 138, 141–42, 173–74, 181–82, 274–75, 284, 293–95, 373–75, 515–16, 553–55, 702

  “Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines” (Thompson), 424

  Time, 14, 36n, 55, 91, 111, 139, 156, 186, 195–96, 210, 215, 275–77, 284, 287, 314n, 420–21, 481, 536, 612, 618, 694, 697, 707–9, 728–30
r />   Today (NBC News show), xiv

  Trilling, Lionel, 49

  Trudeau, Garry, xxi, 657–59

  Truscott, Lucian, 385, 405, 410, 417–19, 456, 580–87, 597, 599

  Tuck, Dick, 478, 532–34, 539, 554, 660–61, 690, 706

  Tuohy, William, 681, 683

  Turman, Lawrence, 131–35, 250–51

  Twain, Mark, viii, xxii

  Udall, Stewart, 64–65, 73–76

  United States Information Agency (USIA), 60n

  Unruh, Jesse M., 114, 240

  Uris, Leon, 217, 230

  Vanderschmidt, Tom, 376, 729–30

  Van Dyk, Ted, 500–501, 543

  Vare, Ned, 289, 312, 363–64

  Varner, Kelly, 18–19

  Vietnam; Vietnam War, xi, xx, 6–7, 11, 13, 33, 36, 41, 45n, 51, 54, 60n, 67–68, 78, 84, 92, 102n, 103, 125, 132, 162n, 172–73, 176, 181, 231–32, 241, 258, 306n, 317, 343, 354, 360, 365–66, 368–70, 374–75, 377–79, 395, 403–5, 407, 410–11, 417–18, 426, 433, 437–40, 448n, 453, 499, 556n, 583–84, 605–7, 613–30, 632–33, 638, 640–41, 645–46, 650–51, 660–61, 678–82, 689, 691, 720

  Village Voice, The, 405, 539, 580, 597–99, 611n, 632–33, 643, 688

  Vo Dan Giang, see Giang, Vo Dan

  von Hoffman, Nicholas, 66, 316–18

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 516, 521, 527–28, 604

  Von Schmidt, Eric, 278, 324

  Wagner, Carl, 499, 544, 559–60, 570, 581, 591, 653, 670–71

  Walinsky, Adam, 532, 544, 556, 559–60, 570, 576, 581–82, 670

  Walker, Gerald, 12–14, 20, 58, 112

  “Walking Nervous Breakdown” (Brower), 597–99

  Wallace, George C., xx, 108, 126, 132, 134, 137, 140, 162n, 477, 482, 495, 671

  Wall Street Journal, The, 65, 70, 102, 290n, 454, 492, 545, 643

  Walsh, John, 564–65, 590, 592

  Warhol, Andy, 92

  Warren, Gerald L., 492, 604

  Warrior, Clyde, 56

  Washington Post, The, 66n, 316–17, 454, 456–57, 493–94, 522, 529n, 535–36, 558, 578–79, 603, 630, 636, 642–43, 659, 663

  Washington Star, The, 381n, 451, 453–54, 456, 663, 665, 697n

  Watergate, xi–xi, xvii, xxii, 505, 519, 524–25, 528–32, 535, 539, 553, 569, 688, 721

  Waters, Muddy, xviii

  Wayne, John, 435–39

  WBAI-FM, 707–9

  Webster, Daniel, 10

  Wenner, Jann, xiii, xviii–xviii, xxi, 283, 288–92, 298, 327, 334, 336, 342n, 349, 354–55, 359–70, 375, 377–82, 384–88, 390–94, 402–5, 407–10, 414–17, 423, 426–28, 440–42, 444, 447–58, 465–69, 472–76, 480–87, 490–91, 496–97, 501–3, 512–15, 524, 532–34, 536–37, 557–60, 562, 564–65, 570–71, 573–79, 581, 589–92, 600, 609–12, 616–17, 619–26, 628–29, 631–36, 641, 643, 648–52, 654–56, 667, 669–70, 675, 677–81, 687, 689, 691–92, 705–6, 708–9, 714, 721

 

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