William McKeen: Hunter

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“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97

“To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 6, Stranger In A Strange Land, p. 89
Context: To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.

“To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 14, Casualties Of War, p. 244

“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1

“Barger thought Hunter provoked Junkie George so that the beating could be used as a gimmick to promote the book.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 111

“Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 299

“Putting Hunter in context was tough.”

Epilogue, p. 356
Outlaw Journalist (2008)

“Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.”

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 302

“In these letters to Ridley, Hunters Gonzo style began to rear its head. One of the characteristics of the style Hunter developed was his preoccupation of getting the story.”

In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73