Salon talks to Timothy Denevi, author of "Freak Kingdom," about Thompson's ten-year literary crusade
Erin Keane November 10, 2018 6:00PM (UTC)
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For people who have never heard about Hunter Thompson except through the excess personality, or for people who know his writing and love it, I’d like this book to be an opportunity to see our present through his incredible perspective in the past.
His ongoing concern with fascism across the ten years depicted in the book, and how that formed a throughline in his work, I think that’s not an easy thing for people to see on the surface. You can be aware of his individual great works but not necessarily see that the thing that ignited his interest in the Hells Angels before anybody knew anything about them, and the District Attorneys conference in Las Vegas, and the campaign trail — American fascism always bubbled beneath the surface of the things that held his fascination.
American fascism is violence, and it’s American violence, and it’s violence we’ve had since the beginning of our democracy. Thompson looked at America, especially in this ten-year time period, and he saw people enforcing their undemocratic points of view with violence, whether they were Mayor Daley, whether they were very angry Hells Angels, whether they were a masculine group of unjust rage, or state-sanctioned violence like the Los Angeles Police Department, he saw their violence and he saw their injustice intertwined at that fascistic point. https://www.salon.com/2018/11/10/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-hunter-s-thompson/
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