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With time on his hands, Thompson, alias Raoul Duke, turns self-appointed investigator of the American Dream, as its garish trappings unfold before him in Vegas' nightclubs, casinos, and neonlit car-gorged strips. To assault this scene in a fitting manner, Thompson employs a personal brand of "gonzo journalism," opposed to professional journalism and characterized by the need for "intense, demented involvement" with the subject. Although it requires a much greater degree of personal involvement, gonzo journalism is akin to Tom Wolfe's style of reporting -- which evolved in one instance into "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" after Wolfe...
Victorian at heart, Britain's "major minor poet" sings (warmly) of homely, gaslit old England and (satirically) of homely, neonlit new England...
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