

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. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. With new introdįear and loathing in Las Vegas: Savage journey to the heart of the American dream - Other American stories: Jacket copy for fear & loathing in Las Vegas: Savage journey to the heart of the American dream - Strange rumblings in Aztlan - Kentucky Derby is decadent and depravedįirst published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S.

Originally published: Random House, 1972.
