Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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  • Paul Perry. Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.
  • Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Vintage, 1998.
  • Richard Weiss. The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale. Bloomington: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
  • Vincent Bugliosi. Helter Skelter. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
  • Marc Weingarten. The Gang that Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution. New York: Crown, 2005.
  • Thomas Ainlay, Jr., and Judy Dixon Gabaldon. Las Vegas: The Fabulous First Century. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

  • James E. Caron. "Hunter S. Thompson's 'Gonzo' Journalism and the Tall Tale Tradition in America." Studies in Popular Culture 8.1 (1985): 1-16.

  • "The '60s Drug Culture." CPS Teaching American History Project. 2014-02-10. <http://crescentok.com/staff/jaskew/TAH/US/drugs.htm>.
  • "Cocaine: A Short History." Foundation for a Drug-Free World. 2014-02-10. <http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/cocaine/a-short-history.html>.
  • Stephanie Edelman and David E. Bromley. "The Universal Life Church (ULC)." Virginia Commonwealth University: World Religions & Spirituality Project. 2011-12-01. 2014-09-05. <http://www.has.vcu.edu/wrs/profiles/UniversalLifeChurch.htm>.
  • "Obituary: Hunter S. Thompson." The Economist. 2005-02-24. 2014-09-05. <http://www.economist.com/node/3690414>.
  • Arthur M. Okun. "A Postmortem of the 1974 Recession." The Brookings Institution. 2014-09-06. <http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/projects/bpea/1975%201/1975a_bpea_okun.pdf>.
  • Chris Trenchard and Allison McCarthy. "The Most Creative Spaces in San Francisco History." 2014-09-08. <http://www.exploresanfrancisco.biz/blog/category/1960s-counter-culture/>.
  • Douglas Brinkley and Terry McDonnell. "The Art of Journalism No. 1: Hunter S. Thompson." The Paris Review. 2000-08-30. 2014-09-08. <http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/619/the-art-of-journalism-no-1-hunter-s-thompson>.
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