Intro Hunter S. Thompson was a great American journalist who just wanted to see this country bring peace, now I will go further and tell you why he had an impact on America and critically analyze him and his work and tell you about some crazy things he did in the 60s-90s. In 1968 Dr. Thompson was assigned to follow the monsters of America who were known as the "Hells Angels", a Californian motorcycle gang, Thompson thought this would be the groundbreaking thing that would make him a famous writer , and he was but it wasn't what he wanted, he was happy with the job, yes but not how he wanted it to be. He wasn't paid enough, he thought he was getting ripped off by publishers, but it still made him a household name in the writing industry because he was the outlet piece America needed to know, it showed the worst piece of scum hiding in our backyard . "His Hell's Angels documents how the group was created by the mainstream media and was 'Rape mania' - what Thompson calls a 'public breakthrough, through rape, on the scale of the Beatles and Bob Dylan'" (Klinkowits). "New Journalism " DISCoveringAuthors. 2003) The story follows the adventures of Dr. Thompson with members of Hell Angles Little Jesus, TheGimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hamebone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Duck, FatFreddy, Filthy phil , Charger Charley the Child Molester (I want to make a comic about this guy), Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred others, but they were the ones Thompson focused on was an incident where he saw one of the members (Tiny ) beat his wife and dog in front of many members and Thompson came up and said: “Just a… middle of paper……, they are horribly depressing. This book was the best and true impact of the style that Thompson was known for in journalism called "Gonzo" and Thompson didn't want it to be but he followed it and fell in love with it after a while and this was the first book to be known for Gonzo and is always considered his best book. Work. (Overview by Hunter S(tocking) Thompson." DISCoveringAuthors. Detroit: Gale, 2003.) In the 1990s there was a film version of the book of the same name with Johnny Depp as Duke, and Thompson was very involved in the production and even forced the directors to change when the original director, Alex Cox, wanted to take Thompson's speech about waves and turn it into an animation Thompson really loved his work and didn't want anyone to change it in any way,. which would have damaged the story or atmosphere of the film book.