First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to
this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and 'check it out.'
The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de
force
