Generation of Swine

The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780743250443
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439126899
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Journalist Biographies
• Index: Literature

From the bestselling author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson’s second volume of the “Gonzo Papers” is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist’s 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.

Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best―covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN―24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson―eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Saturday Night in the City
• Showdown in the Pig Palace
• Nixon and the Whale Woman
• The Hellfire Club
• Gary Hart Talks Politics
• A Generation of Swine
• Buffalo Gores a Visitor
• The Geek from Coral Gables
• 666 Pennsylvania Ave.
• Death to the Weird
• Bad Nerves in Fat City
• Full-time Scrambling
• The Worst People in the World
• The Beast with Three Backs
• The Doctor Will See You How
• Revenge of the Fish Heads
• Après Moi, le Déluge
• The Dim and Dirty Road
• Off With Their Heads
• The American Century?
• Crank Time in Tripoli
• Meat Sickness
• Last Train from Chicago
• Kill Them Before They Eat
• Four Million Thugs
• Memo from the War Room
• The Gonzo Salvage Co.
• Salvage Is Not Looting
• Dawn at the Boca Chica
• Let the Cheap Dogs Eat
• Ox Butchered in Tripoli
• Never Get Off the Boat
• They Called Him Deep Throat
• The Pro-Flogging View
• Just Another Terrorist
• The Woman from Kiev
• Two More Years
• They All Drowned
• Four More Games
• Last Dance in Dumb Town
• Rise of the TV Preachers
• Dealing with Pigs
• Deported to Malaysia
• A Clean, III-Lighted Place
• Slow Day at the Airport
• Lester Maddox Lives
• Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
• Welcome to the Tunnel
• Strictly Business
• Midnight in the Desert
• Down to a Sunless Sea
• The Turk Comes to TV News
• Bull Market on The Strip
• The South African Problem
• Loose Cannon on the Deck
• Let the Good Times Roll
• A Death in the Family
• Back to the Ormsby House
• The Garden of Agony
• White Trash with Money
• The Lord and a Good Lawyer
• Ronald Reagan Is Doomed
• God Bless Colonel North
• Orgy of the Dead
• The Year of the Pig
• Mixup at the Hospital
• The Gizzard of Darkness
• Crazy Patrick and Big Al
• Trapped in Harding Park
• Expelled from the System
• Gone with the Wind
• New Blood on the Tracks
• The Lake of Fire
• So Long, George
• Doomed Love in the Rockies
• The Scum of the Earth
• The Losers’ Club
• The Loved Ones
• The Death Ship
• The American Dream
• Caligula and the 7 Dwarfs
• Memo from the Queer Desk
• The Time of the Geek
• A Wild and Crazy Guy
• Ollie’s Choice
• The Trickle-Down Theory
• Four More Years
• Dance of the Seven Dwarfs
• It Was You, Charlie
• Fat Men on Horseback
• Cowboys at Sea
• Blame it on Dead Bill
• The Last Taxi to Scotland
• Swine of the Week
• Here Come de Judge
• Wooins the Degenerate Vote
• The Weak and the Weird
• The Time Has Come
• The Worm Turns
• The End of an Era
• The Other George Bush
• President Bush Will See You How
• I Slit My Own Eyeballs
• The New Dumb
• Letter to the President
• About the Author