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. As
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has a kind of mad,
corrosive prose poetry that picks up where