Hunter S. Thompson was a journalist who’s energetic writing style became famous after releasing Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Thompson’s style of journalism always seemed to involve his own perspective when writing journalism pieces as much as possible. Reading his pieces felt like navigating his thoughts as he experienced an event. After reading “Fear and Loathing in America”, it is evident that Thompson is not only upset about the events that occurred from 9/11, but also at the ignorance of the American government and irresponsibility to handle the situation. Thompson accomplishes this by comparing the 9/11 attacks to other massacres of war followed by stating that “The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours” (para. 3). Later Thompson criticizes then president, George W. Bush by describing him as a “goofy child” Unfit to handle the situation and ignorant of a war that his father started (para. 10). …show more content…
It is evident that Jones is upset that her own book about motorcycle culture was rejected from being published by Random House, the same publisher who published Thompson’s book. However, Jones makes a great point by highlighting that another author, Daniel Wolf, also released a book about motorcycle culture that did not do so well compared to Thompson’s work, due to lack of narrative power. It did however, do a better job of describing biker culture (2005, para. 9). Jones highlights this by criticizing his coverage when he lived with the Hell’s angels (HA) “He gave us the brutishness and bravery but not the beauty. He told only the sensationalist part of the story. He told the story that would sell” (2005, para.