Generation of Swine

Essays

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns are collected here to offer a chronicle of the adventures of a Generation of Swine, whose evil doings can be detected in almost everything from the Iran Contra hearings to the media coverage of hurric….Read More

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