The first volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Papers collects the Louisville native’s essential journalism, from Nixon and Watergate to Vegas and napalm, spanning his National Observer years through Rolling Stone.
It includes “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” the 1970 piece written about his hometown’s biggest event that’s credited with launching gonzo journalism as a form.
Published 2003
624 pages
$14.99