Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk

Hunter S. Thompson
3.69/5 (2592 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS.

Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as "The Unabomber of contemporary letters" (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports—at times all in the same column.

With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics' favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election ("rigged and fixed from the start"); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball "eliminate the pitcher"); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America―including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system.

Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form―unbridled, astute, and irreverent.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2005
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0684873206
ISBN13:
9780684873206
kindle Asin:
B005HF2W68

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk

Hunter S. Thompson
3.69/5 (2592 ratings)
Read Download
SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS.

Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as "The Unabomber of contemporary letters" (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports—at times all in the same column.

With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics' favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election ("rigged and fixed from the start"); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball "eliminate the pitcher"); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America―including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system.

Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form―unbridled, astute, and irreverent.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2005
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0684873206
ISBN13:
9780684873206
kindle Asin:
B005HF2W68

More Books

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson

Jann S. Wenner

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

Charles Bukowski

Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown

Mike Mignola

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Henry Miller

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Chuck Palahniuk

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Bill Simmons

Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

Carson the Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait

Bill Zehme

Back to Blood

Tom Wolfe