Not Guided by Policy: Hunter S. Thompson and the Birth of Gonzo Journalism

Описание: If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Simon's voice on your GPS and the ever requested Simon Whistler whistling package:   / todayifoundout  

→BOOK RECOMMENDATION: http://amzn.to/2fF7ibe

→Some of our favorites:    • Featured  
→Subscribe for new videos every day!
https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFo...

Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week!

More from TodayIFoundOut

Edgar Allan Poe and His Quest to be Court Martialed
   • Edgar Allan Poe and His Quest to be Court ...  

When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes?
   • When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes?  

In this video:

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” This is the opening line from the highly acclaimed roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream written by Hunter S. Thompson, one of America’s most countercultural and anti-authoritarian writers. The untamed master of his own self-titled genre, “gonzo journalism,” Thompson set ablaze the American standards for journalism during the 1960s and 70s with a cornucopia of drugs, alcohol, gun toting, and most notably, his exemplary writing.

Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...

Sources:

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Hun...
http://www.theparisreview.org/intervi...
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/...
https://books.google.com/books?id=27T...
http://www.denofgeek.us/books-comics/...
https://books.google.com/books?id=WHm...
http://web.archive.org/web/2007101806...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/p...
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/0...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pic...
http://www.criterion.com/current/post...
http://www.ew.com/article/1993/02/19/...
http://totallygonzo.proboards.com/thr...
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...

Image Credit:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarasmi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrummb...

Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.