Contents
Songs of the Doomed is a collection of essays, short stories, and newspaper articles written by Thompson during his career. The book is separated into five sections: "The Fifties: Last Rumble in Fat City", "The Sixties: What the Hell? It's Only Rock and Roll...", "The Seventies: Reaping the Whirlwind, Riding the Tiger", "The Eighties: How Much Money Do You Have?", and "Welcome to the Nineties: Welcome to Jail".
Author's Note
Let the Trials Begin / Electricity / Last Train from Camelot / Note from Ralph Steadman
The Fifties: Last Rumble in Fat City
Tarred and Feathered at the Jersey Shore / Saturday Night at the Riviera / Prince Jellyfish / Fleeing New York
The Sixties: What the Hell? It's Only Rock and Roll...
Letter to Angus Cameron / The Rum Diary / Revisited: The Puerto Rican Problem / The Kennedy Assassination / Back to the U.S.A. / Hell's Angels: Long Nights, Ugly Days, Orgy of the Doomed / Midnight on the Coast Highway / Ken Kesey: Walking with the Kind / LSD-25: Res Ipsa Loquitor / Chicago 1968: Death to the Weird / First Visit with Mescalito
The Seventies: Reaping the Whirlwind, Riding the Tiger
Iguana Project / Never Apologize, Never Explain / Vegas Witchcraft / High-Water Mark / Fear and Loathing / Lies / Ed Muskie Doomed by Ibogaine / Washington Politics / Summit Conference in Elko: Secret Gathering of the Power Elite / Opening Statement: HST / Rolling Stone: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here / Dance of the Doomed / Checking into the Lane Xang / Whooping it up with the War Junkies / Confidential Memo to Colonel Vo Don Giang / Memo to Jim Silberman on the Death of the American Dream / Letter to Russell Chatham
The Eighties: How Much Money Do You Have?
Welcome to the 80's / Love on the Palm Beach Express / Sugarloaf Key / The Silk Road / Letter to Ralph Steadman / Letter to Ken Kesey / Last Memo from the National Affairs Desk / Memo from the Sports Desk / Wild Sex in Sausalito / The Dukakis Problem: Another vicious beating for the New Whigs / Secret Cables to Willie Hearst / San Francisco Examiner Columns / The New Dumb / Fear and Loathing in Sacramento / Whiskey Business / I knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll / Community of Whores / Return to the Riviera Cafe / Avery: Making Sense of the 60's / German Decade: Rise of the Fourth Reich / Turbo Must Die / Memo to Jay Johnson / Warning Issued on Cocaine
Welcome to the Nineties: Welcome to Jail
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