Contents
The book is broken into four parts, moving from Thompson's earliest writing for the U.S. Air Force, through his sports articles, then into his middle years of political and cultural commentary and beyond. Some excerpts from the author's two original Fear and Loathing serials (...in Las Vegas and ...on the Campaign Trail '72) are also included. Thompson worked for several different publications throughout his career, and The Great Shark Hunt covers articles from the National Observer, Rolling Stone, Scanlan's Monthly, The New York Times, Playboy, and others.
Notable persons depicted by the author as cavorting about with him include his illustrator and friend Ralph Steadman, Chicano lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy, and then-football player O. J. Simpson. Political figures appearing prominently in the collection include former U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.
Missing, however, are the illustrations by Ralph Steadman that originally accompanied many of the Thompson articles in this collection.
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