Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loating in Las Vegas, wrote a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for two years. Those columns are collected here to offer a chronicle of the adventures of a Generation of Swine.
The incomparable 'Dr Gonzo' has journeyed no small distance in search of the intelligent life and reports back, instead, on the demented state of currents events. He keeps tabs on the 1998 presidential race, quotes from the Bible, and asks why the President appears to be a hundred and twenty-eight years old.