The Footloose American

Author : Brian Kevin
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770436374
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Footloose American written by Brian Kevin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia. In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place.

Author : Brian Kevin
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770436374
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Footloose American written by Brian Kevin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventure-filled and thought-provoking travelogue along Hunter S. Thompson's forgotten route through South America In 1963, twenty-five-year-old Hunter S. Thompson completed a yearlong journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for an upstart paper called the National Observer. It was here, on the front lines of the Cold War, that this then-unknown reporter began making a name for himself. The Hunter S. Thompson who would become America's iconic "gonzo journalist" was born in the streets of Rio, the mountains of Peru, and the black market outposts of Colombia. In The Footloose American, Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide, offering a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own thrilling, transformative experiences along the Hunter S. Thompson Trail with those that Thompson describes in his letters and lost Observer stories, The Footloose American is at once a gripping personal journey and a thought-provoking study of culture and place.

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Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North American Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Author : Clive Scott Chisholm
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803224315
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Following the Wrong God Home written by Clive Scott Chisholm and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clive Scott Chisholm wryly describes himself as a ?fugitive from the American Dream.? A displaced Canadian and a legally ?registered alien,? Chisholm set out from his home in upstate New York in 1985 to discover the origins of that dream. In Following the Wrong God Home, he recounts his personal odyssey, describing the people he encountered and the unforgettable stories they told. Chisholm?s solo journey on foot from the Missouri River to Salt Lake City retraced the 1,100-mile trek of nineteenth-century Mormon pioneers. In this account, he juxtaposes that Mormon search for the dream of ?community? against the modern search for the American dream of ?individuality,? muses over how much and how little things have changed in the century-and-a-half since 1847, and creates a narrative informed by the American dreamers he came across from Omaha to Salt Lake City.

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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Spirit written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 752 pages
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Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Michael
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enemy of My Enemy written by George Michael and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the violent world of radical extremists, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This study reveals how that precept plays out in the unexpected bonding between militant Islam and the extreme right in America and Europe. It provides an insightful and sane look at the possibilities for collaboration between these groups.

Author : Max Lerner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American as a civilization written by Max Lerner and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Warren Rovetch
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ISBN 13 : 9780615517070
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of a Footloose American: 1941-1951 written by Warren Rovetch and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After running a Detroit grocery store at 14 and a high school night club at 17, Warren Rovetch found his way to Europe as a delegate to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague. In a world of freshly drawn borders and shifting rules, Rovetch was ready for any opportunity that came his way. His footloose adventures took him from Prague to Budapest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb, Trieste, Rome, Leuca, Naples, Paris, London and Oxford. Tales included interviewing an archbishop in his jail cell; asking Tito unscripted questions; escaping Yugoslavia out a train window in Ljubljana; refusing a request from the general's mistress and posing as an ASPCA foreign correspondent in Trieste; living with El Greco; tossing a vodka-laden Russian ambassador in the air; mastering teatime on a British auto assembly line; and taking an unorthodox route to Oxford. With his trademark wit and astute observation, Rovetch illuminates the post-war world and shows what can happen when you approach life asking, "Why not?" Rovetch also provides illuminating background including the liberation of Paris, Churchill's many facets, the Truman Doctrine, and the birth of Israel.

Author : Leon Samson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Mind written by Leon Samson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: