Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Editor’s Note
Part One: Author’s Note
	Let the Trials Begin
	Electricity
	Last Train from Camelot
		Note from Ralph Steadman
Part Two: The Fifties: Last Rumble in Fat City
	Tarred and Feathered at the Jersey Shore
	Saturday Night at the Riviera
	Prince Jellyfish
		Hit Him Again, Jack, He’s Crazy
		Interview
		Cherokee Park
	Fleeing New York
Part Three: The Sixties: What the Hell? it’s Only Rock and Roll . . .
	Letter to Angus Cameron
	The Rum Diary
	Revisited: The Puerto Rican Problem
	The Kennedy Assassination
	Back to the U.S.A.
	Hell’s Angels: Long Nights, Ugly Days, Orgy of the Doomed . . .
	Midnight on the Coast Highway
	Ken Kesey: Walking with the King
	LSD-25: Res Ipsa Loquitor
	Chicago 1968: Death to the Weird
	First Visit with Mescalito
Part Four: The Seventies: Reaping the Whirlwind, Riding the Tiger
	Iguana Project
	Never Apologize, Never Explain
	Vegas Witchcraft
	High-Water Mark
	Fear and Loathing
	Lies—It Was All Lies—I Couldn’t Help Myself
	Ed Muskie Doomed by Ibogaine: Bizarre Drug Plot Revealed
	Washington Politics
	Summit Conference in Elko: Secret Gathering of the Power Elite
	Opening Statement: HST
	Rolling Stone: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
	Dance of the Doomed
	Checking into the Lane Xang
	Whooping It Up with the War Junkies
	Confidential Memo to Colonel Vo Don Giang
	Memo to Jim Silberman on the Death of the American Dream
	Letter to Russell Chatham
Part Five: The Eighties: How Much Money do you Have?
	Welcome to the ’80s
	Love on the Palm Beach Express: The Pulitzer Divorce Trial
	Sugarloaf Key: Tales of the Swine Family
	The Silk Road: Fast Boats on the Ocean at Night
		Fishhead Boys
		The Mariel Boat Lift
		The Murder of Colonel Evans
	Letter to Ralph Steadman
	Letter to Ken Kesey
	Last Memo from the National Affairs Desk
	Memo from the Sports Desk
	Wild Sex in Sausalito
	The Dukakis Problem: Another Vicious Beating for the New Whigs
	Secret Cables to Willie Hearst
		Re: Qaddafi
		Re: The Column
	San Francisco Examiner Columns
	The New Dumb
	Fear and Loathing in Sacramento
		Strange Ride to Reno
		Amor Vincit Omnia
		The Death of Russell Chatham
		Editor’s Note
	Whiskey Business
	I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll
	Community of Whores
	Return to the Riviera Cafe
	Avery: Making Sense of the ’60s
	German Decade: The Rise of the Fourth Reich
	Turbo Must Die
	Memo to Jay Johnson, Night Editor, San Francisco Examiner
	Warning Issued on Cocaine
Part Six: Welcome to the Nineties: Welcome to Jail
	Editor’s Note
	Nothing But Crumbs
	Arrest Warrant and Charges
	Beware
	This Is a Political Trial . . .
	Thompson Hit with 5 Felonies
	Memo to Hal Haddon: Attack Now
	The Art of Hitting the One Iron
	Motion and Order to Dismiss the Case
	Hunter Hails Legal Triumph for Americans
	Press Release, Owl Farm, 5/31/90
	Final Analysis: Gerald Goldstein, Esq.
	A Letter to The Champion: A Publication of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Keith Stroup, Executive Director
	Later That Year . . .
Author’s Note
Footnotes
	Chapter 28
	Note 1
	Chapter 39
	Note 1
	Chapter 58
	Note 1
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	Note 3
	Chapter 70
	Note 1