{"product_id":"stories-i-tell-myself-growing-up-with-hunter-s-thompson-9780307277855","title":"Stories I Tell Myself Growing Up with Hunter S","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHunter S. Thompson, “smart hillbilly,” boy of the South, born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky, son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom, public school-educated, jailed at seventeen on a bogus petty robbery charge, member of the U.S. Air Force (Airmen Second Class), copy boy for \u003ci\u003eTime,\u003c\/i\u003e writer for \u003ci\u003eThe National Observer, \u003c\/i\u003eet cetera. From the outset he was the Wild Man of American journalism with a journalistic appetite that touched on subjects that drove his sense of justice and intrigue, from biker gangs and 1960s counterculture to presidential campaigns and psychedelic drugs. He lived larger than life and pulled it up around him in a mad effort to make it as electric, anger-ridden, and drug-fueled as possible.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now Juan Thompson tells the story of his father and of their getting to know each other during their forty-one fraught years together. He writes of the many dark times, of how far they ricocheted away from each other, and of how t","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401592185175,"sku":"9780307277855","price":12.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stories-i-tell-myself-growing-up-with-hunter-s-thompson-9780307277855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}