Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
10 best books like Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism (Timothy Denevi): My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, The Status Seekers, There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf, The Further Inquiry, Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles, For Reasons of State
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
| Author | Howard Jones |
| ISBN | 0195393600 |
During the summer of 1971, in the midst of protests and demonstrations in the United States against the Vietnam War, it became evident that something horrific had happened in the remote South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Three years previously, in March 1968, a unit of American soldiers engaged in seemingly...
| Author | Randy Shilts |
| ISBN | 5551973522 |
So I read this book not necessarily because the topic particularly interests me, but because I read And the Band Played On and fell in love with Shilt's journalistic style. He is one of the many people our society lost because of AIDS and working my way through his three books has brought to my mind again...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 1560255021 |
When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating...
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
| Author | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| ISBN | 0679722130 |
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
Written...
| Author | Vance Packard |
| ISBN | 0671771159 |
An exploration of class behavior in America and the hidden barriers that affect you, your community, your future.
"IS AMERICA A CLASSLESS SOCIETY? NO! says best-selling author Vance Packard in this scorching investigation of the status and class structure of our society. The car you drive,...
| Author | Peter Doggett |
| ISBN | 1841959405 |
Between 1967 and 1973, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Africa to Western Europe.Demonstrators took to the streets, fought gun battles with police,...
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of...
| Author | Ken Kesey |
| ISBN | 0670831743 |
American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
Ken...
| Author | William McKeen |
| ISBN | 1613734913 |
Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock ’n’ roll history: “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas and the Papas, “Mr. Tambourine Man” by the Byrds, and “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the...
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1565847946 |
C'è da dire che probabilmente trovandomi a leggere la lista della spesa compilata da Chomsky troverei anche lì qualcosa di entusiasmante, quindi sono proprio di parte... ad ogni modo questo insieme di saggi lo definisco interessante e per alcuni versi illuminante (ma và). In primo piano ci sono...
Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy
In 2010, the anti-secrecy organization known as WikiLeaks made headlines around the world when it released thousands of classified U.S. government diplomatic cables and battlefield reports. The New York Times played a crucial role in breaking the WikiLeaks story, and “Open Secrets” is the...
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity
| Author | Neal Gabler |
| ISBN | 0679764399 |
Wow, this was quite a journey. It took me months to read, and I'm not entirely sure why because it is well enough written and superbly researched. It is a longish book, around 550 pages, but not inordinately so for a biography. It might be due to the level of detail that author Neil Gabler crams into every...
| Author | Jim Marrs |
| ISBN | 1932857435 |
Jim Marrs presents the official government pronouncement on 9/11 as an obvious conspiracy. The only question is whose conspiracy it was. According to the government, the conspiracy involved about nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom...
| Author | Anthony Haden-Guest |
| ISBN | 0688160980 |
Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, into an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence.Going beyond the endless...
| Author | Neil Sheehan |
| ISBN | 0552649171 |
We've come to expect absurd claims of competence from Donald Trump, but every president goes to some length to make it appear that he and his associates are very competent and know exactly what they are doing at all times.
When I say "we've come to expect" it is because the American people have...
| Author | Nick Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0252074521 |
I was a long-time member of the Socialist Party. One of the reasons was familial. Father and his father had both belonged. Another was because two of my heroes, Norman M. Thomas and Eugene V. Debs, had belonged. When I was young, Thomas was still around. I recall reading about his death one day while in our...
| Author | Joseph Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375421033 |
As a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, Joseph Mitchell interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods,...
| Author | Gwynne Dyer |
| ISBN | 0786717718 |
While modern science ponders whether human beings are programmed toward belligerence and warfare, there is no doubt that war has been humanity's constant companion since the dawn of civilization, and that we have become all too proficient in its conduct. In War, noted military historian Gwynne Dyer...
| Author | Stanley Cloud |
| ISBN | 0395877539 |
Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard...
| Author | Phil Patton |
| ISBN | 0679456511 |
There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and --not coincidentally--where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This...
| Author | H.L. Mencken |
| ISBN | 0801853419 |
In six volumes of "Prejudices" published between 1919 and 1927, H.L. Mencken collected some of the best essays he ever wrote and established the style that made him a titan of the free press. Thirty years later, James T. Farrell, Mencken's friend and the author of the "Studs Lonigan" trilogy, read again...
More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
| Author | Thai Jones |
| ISBN | 0802779336 |
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. There was blood in the air that year,†a witness later recalled, there truly was....
Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
| Author | Bart Jones |
| ISBN | 1586421352 |
Bart Jones knows Venezuela intimately and was an eyewitness to President Hugo Chávez’s rise to power. In Hugo! he tells the story of Chávez’s impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a failed attempt to seize power in 1992. He...
Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim
| Author | Justin Martell |
| ISBN | 1908279877 |
As Bing Crosby once put it, Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business'. In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, the forty-something falsetto-voiced,...
