512

  April 23

  To Virginia Thompson

  515

  May 3

  To Sid Griffin, Athenaeum Literary Association

  516

  June 1

  To Ian Martin, Thames TV

  517

  June 2

  To Joseph Dolan

  518

  June 4

  To Frank Mankiewicz

  519

  June 9

  From William J. Kennedy

  520

  June 18

  To Jim Silberman, Random House

  521

  June 18

  To John Holdorf, A. L. Johnson Library, Union College

  522

  June 20

  To William J. Kennedy

  523

  June 21

  To Hughes and Anne Rudd

  524

  June 22

  To David Butler, Playboy

  525

  June 28

  To Kurt Vonnegut

  527

  June 29

  To U.S. Senator George McGovern

  529

  July 9

  To Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House

  530

  August 16

  To David Butler, Playboy

  531

  August 16

  Memo from the Sports Desk (From Raoul Duke to Jann Wenner)

  532

  August 17

  To Anthony Burgess

  534

  August 23

  To Katharine Graham, The Washington Post

  535

  September 11

  To Hughes Rudd, CBS News

  536

  September 14

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  536

  September 17

  To David Butler, Playboy

  538

  September 24

  From William J. Kennedy

  538

  September 24

  From Kristi Witker

  539

  October

  “Fear and Loathing in the Doldrums”

  540

  October 11

  From Oscar Acosta

  542

  October 17

  To Kristi Witker

  543

  October 17

  To U.S. Senator George McGovern

  544

  October 17

  To Jim Silberman, Random House

  545

  October 17

  To Garry Wills

  549

  October 19

  To George Stranahan

  551

  October 20

  To Virginia Thompson

  553

  October 20

  To Jerome Grossman

  555

  October 22

  From U.S. Senator George McGovern

  558

  October 25

  From Katharine Graham, The Washington Post

  558

  November 27

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  558

  November 29

  From Oscar Acosta

  561

  December 4

  To Oscar Acosta

  562

  December 4

  To Max Palevsky

  563

  December 25

  To Max Palevsky

  563

  December 25

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  564

  December 25

  To Greg Jackson, ABC News

  565

  1974

  569

  January 3

  To Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House

  573

  January 4

  To Terry Cook, Hot Rod

  574

  February 2

  To Alan Rinzler, Straight Arrow Books

  575

  February 10

  To Paul Semonin

  577

  February 15

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  578

  February 15

  To Ken Kesey

  579

  February 15

  To Lucian Truscott, The Village Voice

  580

  February 21–24

  A-76 Memo to Elko Conference

  581

  March 2

  From Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House

  587

  April 17

  Memo from the Sports Desk (To H. Thompson from R. Duke)

  587

  May 18

  To Alan Rinzler, Straight Arrow Books

  589

  May 18

  To Richard N. Goodwin

  589

  June 7

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  590

  July 4

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  591

  July 4

  To Warren Hinckle

  592

  July 4

  To William Farr, Los Angeles Times

  593

  September 18

  From Carrie Neftzger (To Rolling Stone)

  594

  September 27

  To Carrie Neftzger

  594

  October 16

  From U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale

  595

  October 22

  From Annie Acosta

  595

  November 6

  From Roscoe C. Born, The National Observer (To Hugh M. Hefner, Playboy)

  596

  November 15

  To Lucian Truscott, The Village Voice

  597

  November 15

  To the Editor, The Village Voice

  597

  November 17

  To George V. Higgins

  599

  December 5

  To Max Palevsky

  600

  December 6

  To Roscoe C. Born, The National Observer

  601

  December 11

  From U.S. Senator George McGovern

  604

  1975

  605

  February 5

  From Governor Jimmy Carter

  609

  March 10

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  609

  April 21

  To Paul Scanlon, Rolling Stone

  613

  April 22

  To Colonel Vo Dan Giang, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

  613

  April

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  616

  April

  Memo on Saigon

  617

  April

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  619

  April 23

  To Tim Crouse c/o Paul Scanlon, Rolling Stone

  620

  May 1

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  621

  May 2

  Memo from the Global Affairs Desk

  624

  May 4

  Memo from the Global Affairs Desk

  626

  May 6

  From Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  628

  June 1

  To Doug Sapper

  629

  June 1

  To George C. Bluestone

  631

  June 18

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  635

  June 22

  To U.S. Representative John Burton

  636

  July 14

  To Frank Mankiewicz

  639

  July 14

  To Loren Jenkins, Newsweek

  640

  July 15

  To Lynn Nesbit

  640

  July 22

  To Sandy Berger

  642

  July 22

  To Sally Quinn, The Washington Post

  6
44

  August 12

  To Gordon Lish, Esquire

  646

  August 25

  To Don Erickson, Esquire

  647

  August 28

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  648

  September 5

  To U.S. Senator George McGovern

  652

  September 7

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  654

  September 9

  To Dick Drayne, Press Secretary to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy

  656

  September 10

  To Sandy Berger

  657

  September 11

  To U.S. Senator Gary Hart

  659

  October 4

  To Dick Tuck

  660

  October 4

  To Geoffrey Norman, Playboy

  661

  October 4

  To Peter Haas and Howard Learner, University of Michigan Activities Center

  662

  October 12

  To Mary McGrory, The Washington Star

  663

  October 12

  To Tom Dowling, The Washington Star

  665

  October 12

  To Dave Braaten, The Washington Star

  665

  November 17

  From Governor Jimmy Carter

  666

  November 18

  To Jim Silberman, Random House

  666

  November 24

  To Governor Jimmy Carter

  670

  1976

  673

  January 2

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  677

  January 2

  To Richard N. Goodwin

  679

  January 15

  To Loren Jenkins, Newsweek

  681

  February 3

  To Ted Solotaroff, The American Review

  683

  February 6

  To Bill Macauley, University of Notre Dame, Class of 1976

  685

  February 6

  To Bob Arum

  686

  February 9

  To Frank Gannon

  688

  April 17

  From Grover Lewis

  688

  April 24

  To Loren Jenkins, Newsweek

  689

  June 16

  To Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

  691

  June 23

  To Bob Rafelson

  692

  June 29

  To Jimmy Carter

  696

  July 1

  To U.S. Senator Gary Hart

  700

  July 6

  To Frank N. Dubofsky, American Civil Liberties Union

  701

  July 7

  To Davison Thompson

  702

  July 10

  Democratic Convention Notes

  704

  August 1

  To Paul Gorman, WBAI-FM

  707

  August 1

  To Captain Vito Adamo

  709

  August 2

  From U.S. Senator Gary Hart

  710

  August 6

  To U.S. Senator Gary Hart

  711

  August

  Memo from the Sports Desk

  714

  September 1

  To Jim Silberman, Random House

  717

  November 20

  From U.S. Senator George McGovern

  723

  December

  Shark/HST … Author’s Note

  723

  Index

  Acosta, Annie, 595–96

  Acosta, Marco, 37, 445

  Acosta, Oscar “Zeta,” xix–xix, 29–32, 35–41, 43, 46–48, 52–53, 55–57, 82–83, 85–88, 90, 96, 111–12, 155–57, 161, 165, 167–68, 188–89, 204–5, 207–8, 213–14, 220, 240–41, 246, 252–55, 271–73, 277, 281–82, 284–87, 317, 328, 348, 359, 362, 366, 377–78, 386–87, 392, 396–97, 407, 409, 418, 430, 445–50, 474–77, 526, 542–43, 554, 561–62, 595–96, 649, 688–89

  Acosta, Socorro, 214, 273, 287, 387

  Adamo, Vito, 709–10

  Advertisements for Myself (Mailer), 267, 417, 422, 425

  Agena, Kay, 509–10

  Agnew, Spiro T., 137, 140, 216, 225, 227–28, 230–31, 237–38, 240, 256, 263, 296, 298–99, 301, 318, 338–39, 352, 438, 477, 490, 503, 582

  Alaska Sleeping Bag Co., 26–27, 34–35

  Albany Times-Union, 90, 108, 256, 351

  Algren, Nelson, xix, 48

  Ali, Muhammad, xxiii, 92, 251, 592, 679n, 686

  Allen, Dave, 191–95

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 32–33, 88

  American Rifleman, 91, 103–4, 186

  America’s Cup yacht races, 321–22, 326, 328, 362, 367–68, 424, 426

  Andelman, David, 651–52

  Anderson, Hiram, 162–63

  Anderson, Signe, 8

  Apple, R. W. “Johnny,” 664, 697

  Arum, Robert, 338, 679, 686–87

  Aspen, Colo., xviii–xviii, xxi, 14–15, 17–18, 29, 32–33, 45–46, 49–50, 57, 62, 64, 68–69, 79, 87–88, 96–97, 101, 107, 111–12, 137, 141, 144, 151, 157–60, 163, 168, 171–72, 174–77, 182–85, 188, 193–94, 208–10, 212–13, 215–17, 224–26, 229–43, 247, 249–50, 253, 255, 258–61, 271, 277–79, 284–86, 288–92, 295, 297, 299, 301, 307–9, 311, 313–15, 319, 324n, 326, 328–29, 331, 333–36, 339–40, 342, 352–56, 359–60, 362–64, 367–70, 374, 378, 380–81, 385, 390–91, 393, 395, 406–8, 416–18, 422–28, 435, 459, 480, 493, 499–500, 514, 517–18, 529, 532, 536–37, 541, 558, 560, 579, 591, 669, 681–83, 700

  Aspen Institute, 49

  Aspen News, 45–46, 208, 231–32, 258

  Aspen Times, 33, 45–46, 62, 68, 97, 111–12, 131, 157–59, 217, 230–32, 257n, 287, 311, 328–31, 374, 515, 704

  Aspen Wallposter, xviii, 281–82, 283–86, 288–94, 297, 301, 304, 307–11, 313–14, 317–18, 332–33, 344, 354, 356, 393

  Aspinal, Wayne, 303, 305–7

  Athenaeum Literary Association, 287, 516

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 207

  Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Acosta), 476

  Baez, Joan, 6, 192, 196, 278

  Bailey, Andrew, 349

  Baker, Tom, 611, 636, 654–55

  Baldwin, James, 24

  Balin, Marty, 8, 9

  Ballantine, Ian, 432, 471

  Ballantine Books, 14–15, 21, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 59–60, 72, 100–101, 106, 108–9, 123, 132, 161, 168–69, 177, 206, 211, 228, 250, 431–33, 545

  Barger, Sonny, 19, 73, 90

  Barkan, Al, 497, 556

  Barnard, Bugsy, 46

  Bastian, Ed, 246, 387

  Batista, Fulgencio, 59, 86

  “Battle of Aspen, The” (Thompson), xix, 290, 298–99, 334–36, 339–40, 342, 363, 367–68, 378, 402, 416, 418, 422–27, 430–31, 433, 435–36

  “Battle of Aspen, The—An Epitaph for Freak Power?” (Thompson), 410

  BBS Productions, 397–98, 402

  Beatty, Warren, 463, 480, 682

  Bellows, Jim, 63–66, 82–83, 96, 122, 208, 666

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, 10n

  Benti, Joe, 192–93, 196, 208–10, 212, 230–31, 242

  Benton, Tom, 46, 307–8, 344, 380, 391, 514, 536, 683

  Berger, Samuel R. “Sandy,” xxi, 498–501, 570, 581, 642–44, 646, 653, 657–59

  Berkeley, Calif., 49, 113–14, 118–19, 176, 183, 328, 397, 596–97, 602–3

  Berkeley Barb, 44

  Bernstein, Carl, 535, 578

  Berry, Lee, 90, 108, 189–90, 257, 274, 455, 521, 524

  Bibb, David Porter, III, 287–88, 516, 537

  Big Sur, Calif., 47, 97, 251–52, 278, 348–49, 381, 399n

  Bloor, Ella Reeve “Mother,” 372–73

  Bluestone, George C., 63
1–35

  Bone, Robert, 75–76

  Bormann, Martin, 45, 46, 50, 57, 81

  Born, Roscoe C., 596–97, 601–4

  Boston Globe, The, 94, 99–100, 146–47, 149, 164, 266, 273, 292, 295, 424, 443–44, 704n

  Boulder, Colo., 97, 175–76, 279

  Boys on the Bus, The (Crouse), 466–67

  Braaten, Dave, 665–66

  Braden, Tom, 381, 385

  Brennan, William J., 49, 209–10, 215

  Brinkley, Douglas, xiv–xiv, 753

  Broder, David, 529, 593, 697, 706

  Brower, Brock, 597–99

  Brown, Sam, 532–34

  Bruce, Lenny, xix, 18n, 211

  Bruno, Jerry, 94

  Bryan, William Jennings, xvii

  Buchanan, Patrick J., xxi, 49, 95, 317, 404, 530–32, 550, 573–74, 587, 688

  Buckley, Richard M. “Lord,” 18

  Buffett, Jimmy, 607, 649, 696

  Burger, Warren E., 712–13

  Burgess, Anthony, 471, 534–35

  Burke, David, 559, 570, 576, 581, 670

  Burns, Michael, 398–99, 401, 432–33

  Burroughs, William S., xxi, 71

  Burton, John, 240, 636–39

  Butler, David, xii, 222–23, 525–27, 531–32, 538

  Butterfield, Paul, 9

  Caddell, Patrick J., 463, 496, 554, 570–71, 581, 698–99, 712

  Caen, Herb, 5, 310–11

  Cahill, Tim, 349

  Cardoso, Bill, 99–100, 146–47, 149, 164, 273–74, 295, 443–44, 521, 524