Thompson and illustrated by Ralph Steadman, the book was largely derived from articles serialized in Rolling Stone throughout 1972.

This book has drawn some controversy from some people due to the depiction of vigorous abuse of drugs. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 is a 1973 book that recounts and analyzes the 1972 presidential campaign in which Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States. Now while in no way do I condone abusing drugs like this, this amount of drugs is impressive (albeit in a scary way), especially considering the novel is mostly autobiographical, meaning that these two actually did all of this in real life! The book’s unhinged humor and wild surrealism were difficult to capture on film, and it took 27 years for Terry Gilliam’s version to finally arrive on screens in May 1998. Some of the highlights include ‘2 bags of grass’, ‘5 sheets of high power blotter acid’, and who can forget ‘1 whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, and laughers’. Thompson wrote 18 books and hundreds of articles, but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas remains the one he’s best known for. As you can see, Raoul and Gonzo had an absolutely obscene amount of drugs at their disposal during the course of the novel. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. Today’s infographic focuses on Raoul Duke’s stash for the wild weekend depicted in Fear and Loathing. The book was later adapted into a film of the same title in 1998, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. The novel is memorable for some of its major themes, from the failure of the 1960s counterculture to the use of drugs as an escape from the realities of American life. Gonzo (Oscar Zeta Acosta) who experience a wild weekend in Vegas all in the name of the American Dream. The novel is rooted in autobiographical incidents and follows journalist Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of the more memorable pieces of literature from the 20th century is Hunter S.

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