Hunter S. Thompson's death

Some of us writers are morning the loss of Hunter S. Thompson. He was a 1970s Icon and for some of us; a great inspiration. I have to admit that my latest book Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie was partially inspired by some of Thompson’s earlier writings. Especially helpful was Thompson’s attracts on Richard Nixon, one of the greatest war criminals of the 20th century. I realized I was not the only person who hated him and there’s no reason to hold back when tearing down a despicable Republican icon.
Now we have George “Frat Rat” Bush showing us that there is no bottom to the slime barrel of imperialist and hypocritical politics. One of Thompson’s last writings stated, in affect, that “Dubya” Bush has made Nixon look like a humanitarian.
Next year I hope to publish a book about the religious right, in general, called The Summer of Mercy, a Decade of Hate; focusing somewhat on the religious crackpots that come out of Kansas. In the meantime, my present book looks at the ‘70s and turmoil of that time.

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the "Woodstock generation." There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon's war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America's youth. Nixon's war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979.

Available at:
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1420821067/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/104-9599235-9283905?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance


My other blog can be viewed at http://mro.fetchauthor.info. It is through Fetch Books. Both my new book and my old book, War on Drugs/ War on People can be found at that site.