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‘Freak Kingdom’: On Hunter S. Thompson’s Fight Against Fascism

‘Freak Kingdom’: On Hunter S. Thompson’s Fight Against Fascism

In Freak Kingdom, Timothy Denevi gives a charmingly sensational account of Hunter S. Thompson's life in order to prove his point that Thompson actually conducted himself as quite a serious anti-fascist.

‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer

‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer

Despite Mailer's literary merit, his persistent fetishizing of the black body in his writing during the '60s gets tiresome. Yet we can't ignore these works.

The Doldrums of the Drug Experience: Jennifer Ulrich’s ‘The Timothy Leary Project’

The Doldrums of the Drug Experience: Jennifer Ulrich’s ‘The Timothy Leary Project’

The initial role Ulrich took on as the archivist of the Timothy Leary archive was to publish excerpts from it on a public blog. That seems more suitable than this rather stolid book.

Mind-Melding Meetings Between Jesters and Kings: Elvis and Nixon, West and Trump

Comics-in-Chief: Laughing With (and At) the Presidents — The Scathing Slice of the Satirical Edge

Comics-in-Chief: Laughing With (and At) the Presidents – The Watershed Moment of Political Humor

Talking About My Generation, ‘Mad Men’ Style

Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Rightward Bound by Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer (Editors)