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Decadence and Depravity in Louisville, Kentucky

The publication of his electrifying dispatch from the Kentucky Derby on May 2nd, 1970, had announced him as among the most innovative and powerful voices in American letters.

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Decadence and Depravity in Louisville, Kentucky
Hunter S Thompson at his ranch standing against a bookcase with a Ralph Steadman picture on the wall on October 12, 1990 in Woody Creek, Aspen, Colorado (Photo by Paul Harris/Getty Images).

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