FEAR AND LOATING AT ROLLING STONE showcases the evolution of a writer and a magazine. Jann S. Wenner, Hunter Thompson’s editor and friend for nearly 35 years, has selected the pieces --- including many never collected before --- to show Hunter’s Rolling Stone writing, when taken as a whole, as an extended, allusive autobiography of the writer himself pursuing his lifelong obsession, the king-hell story of them all: The Death of the American Dream.

From Hunter’s first piece for Rolling Stone --- the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform --- to his last piece on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, with plenty of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, Muhammad Ali, and Bill Clinton woven in along the way, FEAR AND LOATING AT ROLLING STONE presents 42 examples of the best of Hunter’s work edited anew, along with never-before-seen selections from the correspondence between Wenner and Thompson. The result is a vital inside glimpse of the rollicking spectacle of a writer at his peak, delivering the work of his career to the editor of the magazine that became his literary home.