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I've been reading Hunter's twisted, brilliant screeds about bikers, dopers, sharks, Samoan lawyers, goons, sports, speed and Jesus freaks, Nixon, and the American Dream since junior high.
quote: Writing in The New York Times in 1973, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt worried Thompson might someday "lapse into good taste."
"That would be a shame, for while he doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity," he wrote. "And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."