Freak Kingdom

Author : Timothy Denevi
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541767950
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freak Kingdom written by Timothy Denevi and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw through Richard Nixon's treacherous populism and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it. In his fevered effort to expose institutional injustice, Thompson pushed himself far beyond his natural limits, sustained by drugs, mania, and little else. For ten years, he cast aside his old ambitions, troubled his family, and likely hastened his own decline, along the way producing some of the best political writing in our history. This timely biography recalls a period of anger and derangement in American politics, and one writer with the guts to tell the truth.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Timothy Denevi's Freak Kingdom written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-06T22:59:00Z with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist, was shocked by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He had become a Kennedy enthusiast three years earlier after watching the first televised presidential debate. #2 Thompson’s reaction to the assassination was to begin collecting firsthand testimony from people in Dealey Plaza, which he sent to his editor at the National Observer. He was afraid that America had been attacked by the very threat its most conservative politicians had been shouting about for decades. #3 The death of President Kennedy seemed to offer the country the ideal catalyst for national suicide. The following year, Nixon revealed himself to be the narcissistic and petulant hypocrite he’d always been. #4 The assassination of President Kennedy marked a turning point for Thompson. He decided to devote himself to journalism, and he offered a personal articulation of the tragedy: There is no human being within 500 miles to whom I can communicate anything, he wrote, much less the fear and loathing that is on me after today’s murder.

Author : Max Brallier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698181417
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benson's Big Book of Freak-Outs written by Max Brallier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET FIRED UP about Benson’s Big Book of Freak-Outs! See the trouble Mordecai and Rigby have been getting into in this compilation of Benson’s funniest freak-out moments. Shaped like Benson’s head, this novelty book will have you laughing your own head off for hours.

Author : Timothy Denevi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476702594
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hyper written by Timothy Denevi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind about what it’s like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a “haunting narrative that explores the world’s most scrutinized childhood condition from the inside out” (Nature) that also illuminates the history of how we came to medicate more than four million children today. Among the first generation of boys prescribed medication for ADHD in the 1980s, Timothy Denevi took Ritalin at the age of six and suffered a psychotic reaction. Thus began his long odyssey through a variety of treatments. In Hyper, Denevi describes how he made his way to adulthood, knowing he was a problem for those who loved him, longing to be able to be good and fit in, and finally realizing he had to come to grips with his disorder before his life spun out of control. Using these experiences as a springboard, Denevi also traces our understanding and treatment of ADHD from the nineteenth century, when bad parenting and even government conspiracies were blamed, through the twentieth century and drug treatments like Benzedrine, Ritalin, and antidepressants. His insightful history shows how drugs became the treatment of choice for ADHD, rather than individually crafted treatments like the one that saved his life. Thought provoking and deeply intelligent, this is a remarkable book both for its sensitive portrait of a child’s experience as well as for its thorough exploration of a remarkably complex and controversial mental condition and its treatment. “There’s much to be learned in Hyper, about pushing boundaries and respecting them, about parenting, and about the special kind of triumph that can come as a result of hard-earned self-knowledge. Denevi has written a book about a condition that has been studied for a long time, but, truly, it hasn’t been talked about like this” (BookPage).

Author : E. Jean Carroll
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452271296
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter written by E. Jean Carroll and published by Plume. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turbo-journalist Carroll delivers the shocking truth about the man she calls "the whoopie cushion under the seat of power". This unflinchingly decadent biography is one of the juiciest, sexiest, and funniest to come along in a long time. 16 pages of photos.

Author : Darren Shan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007435339
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allies of the Night (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 8) written by Darren Shan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for the Vampaneze Lord continues for the hunters of the dusk. Darren gets an unwelcome taste of reality when he is forced to go back to school and his past catches up with him.

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Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316464449
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, Vol. 2 written by and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sora, a young boy who lives a peaceful life on his tropical island home, is set adrift when a horrible storm wrecks the world he loves and separates him from his friends, Riku and Kairi. In another world, the Disney castle is in chaos when King Mickey goes missing, and it's up to Donald, the court magician, and Goofy, the captain of the army, to find their king. When both Sora and the King's allies happen upon each other and learn that the ills that have befallen their worlds are the doing of dark beings without heartsknown as the Heartless, the three recent acquaintances take up arms together in an epic quest to travel to unknown worlds, set those worlds right, and findtheir friends!!

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127137
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candyfreak written by Steve Almond and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey's Cookies 'n Mint. The Marathon, an inimitable rope of caramel covered in chocolate. Oompahs. Bit-O-Choc. The Kit Kat Dark. Steve Almond certainly does. In fact, he was so obsessed by the inexplicable disappearance of these bars—where'd they go?—that he embarked on a nationwide journey to uncover the truth about the candy business. There, he found an industry ruled by huge conglomerates, where the little guys, the last remaining link to the glorious boom years of the candy bar in America, struggle to survive. Visiting the candy factories that produce the Twin Bing, the Idaho Spud, the Goo Goo Cluster, the Valomilk, and a dozen other quirky bars, Almond finds that the world of candy is no longer a sweet haven. Today's precious few regional candy makers mount daily battles against corporate greed, paranoia, and that good old American compulsion: crushing the little guy. Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. By turns ecstatic, comic, and bittersweet, Candyfreak is the story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy—and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too.

Author : Kelly Fisher Lowe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260054
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words and Music of Frank Zappa written by Kelly Fisher Lowe and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.

Author : Ross Allaire
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304038785
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Godlings written by Ross Allaire and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Tuesday, June 18, 1996 at St. Antony's High School, 59 students and 12 teachers were killed in a riot during 6th Period Lunch. Identification of the dead lasted 19 days, and notification of family members took the rest of that third week. Students' parents were camped out on school property, and some members of the parish took rooms in the convent next door. Authorities heading the investigation - alumni of the school - later stated that it had been decided from the start that news of the incident should not be made public - for fear of creating a panic. The parents of the victims complied. 4 teenagers just got away with the crime of the century, and no one seems to care. So what? Now what? These four are "godlings" out to conquer the world and then some. They take no great care and no prisoners... at least not yet. Find out what makes these kids tick, or if they even tick at all. []RA]