Hunter S. Thompson's 1972 Gonzo journalism classic — narrating a drug-fueled road trip to Las Vegas with his attorney — which functions as an autopsy of the 1960s dream and a portrait of American excess.
Creates Gonzo journalism as a literary form — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas shows (through extreme personal experience as reporting method) that the American Dream had curdled into consumerism and that the 1960s counterculture had failed to change anything fundamental; the drug trip is the methodology for seeing clearly.
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