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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg From Powells.com By the time he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg had already received nearly every award available to an American journalist, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? by Molly Ivins Publisher Comments Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest--and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Most who have observed Christopher Hitchens over the years would agree that he possesses a ferocious intellect and is unafraid to tackle the most contentious subjects. Now 60, English-born and American by adoption; all atheist and partly Jewish; bohemian... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Jake Adelstein Staff Pick Tokyo Vice is an almost unbelievable story of organized crime, human trafficking, and officials who look the other way, told by an American reporter — working for a Japanese newspaper — determined to expose the crimes. Adelstein's courage and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments Thompson's legendary tale of excess. The long-awaited feature film promises to be one of the most talked-about movies of the season, starring Johnny Depp.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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La Place de La Concorde Suisse by John Mcphee Publisher Comments La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Isrealis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. John... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Half Empty by David Rakoff Publisher Comments The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don't Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed. In this deeply funny (and, no... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine with DVD-ROMs by New Yorker Staff Pick The title says it all. This superb — nay, essential — set of eight DVD-ROMs includes everything ever printed in every issue of the New Yorker, right down to the vintage advertisements. The content is searchable in every way possible from your... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rolling Stone Years: Every Picture Tells a Story... by Baron Wolman Synopsis The Rolling Stone Years features the work of Baron Wolman, the first photographer to work for America’s legendary Rolling Stone magazine, many of whose images from the late sixties and early seventies have become iconic shots from rock’s... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments The white liberal establishment encounters the newly emerging art of confrontation in two devastatingly funny essays exploring political stances and social styles in a status-minded world.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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