Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson

by Juan F. Thompson

Book Overview

Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly," boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class), copy boy for Time, writer for The National Observer, et cetera. From the outset he was the Wild Man of American journalism with a journalistic appetite that touched on subjects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307265358
• ISBN13: 9780307265357
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"