Summary of Timothy Denevi's Freak Kingdom

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#1 Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist, was shocked by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He had become a Kennedy enthusiast three years earlier after watching the first televised presidential debate.

#2 Thompson’s reaction to the assassination was to begin collecting firsthand testimony from people in Dealey Plaza, which he sent to his editor at the National Observer. He was afraid that America had been attacked by the very threat its most conservative politicians had been shouting about for decades.

#3 The death of President Kennedy seemed to offer the country the ideal catalyst for national suicide. The following year, Nixon revealed himself to be the narcissistic and petulant hypocrite he’d always been.

#4 The assassination of President Kennedy marked a turning point for Thompson. He decided to devote himself to journalism, and he offered a personal articulation of the tragedy: There is no human being within 500 miles to whom I can communicate anything, he wrote, much less the fear and loathing that is on me after today’s murder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822527539

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist, was shocked by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He had become a Kennedy enthusiast three years earlier after watching the first televised presidential debate.

#2

Thompson’s reaction to the assassination was to begin collecting firsthand testimony from people in Dealey Plaza, which he sent to his editor at the National Observer. He was afraid that America had been attacked by the very threat its most conservative politicians had been shouting about for decades.

#3

The death of President Kennedy seemed to offer the country the ideal catalyst for national suicide. The following year, Nixon revealed himself to be the narcissistic and petulant hypocrite he’d always been.

#4

The assassination of President Kennedy marked a turning point for Thompson. He decided to devote himself to journalism, and he offered a personal articulation of the tragedy: There is no human being within 500 miles to whom I can communicate anything, he wrote, much less the fear and loathing that is on me after today’s murder.

#5

The Thompsons moved to California in 1964. They’d been married for less than a year, and their relationship seemed healthy. But when they arrived in Glen Ellen, they were told that they had been promised a cottage, but someone else had taken it. They had nowhere to go.

#6

In the aftermath of Kennedy’s death, Hunter was overwhelmed by the things he hadn’t yet accomplished. He was unable to concentrate, and felt like he was falling deeper into debt and depression.

#7

Bob Geiger and Hunter Thompson began to spend time together, and as spring gave way to the dry season, they found themselves thinking about making a trip to Mississippi to register voters with the Freedom Riders.

#8

The author, Hunter Thompson, and his doctor, Bob Geiger, used Dexedrine to help them through the stressful move to Sonoma. It was a trade version of the psychostimulant amphetamine, and