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Hell's Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

  • 307 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1967
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

This is an in depth examination of the notorious motorcycle club and its members. Thompson was allowed extraordinary access to the lives of various members of the Californian Chapter of the Hell's Angels for almost a year during which time he conducted countless interviews and observed their customs and behaviour from a unique vantage point.

  • Organized crime
  • Social science
  • Autobiography and memoir
  • Criminology
  • Journalism
  • California

2 About Hunter S. Thompson

1937–2005

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences.

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