Mann, Herbie, xviii, 234, 280, 343–44
Martin, Ian, 459–60, 517–18
Meany, George, 92, 315, 495, 497n
Meggyesy, Dave, 367, 424, 451
“Memoirs of a Brown Buffalo” (Acosta), 397
Mencken, H. L., xv, xvii, xix
Meredith, Scott, 13–14, 21, 28
Metesky, George, 586, 665
Miami, Fla., 98, 490, 495–96
Michigan, University of, 662–63
Middletown Daily Record, 75, 195, 274
Mills, Wilbur, 58
Mint 400 motorcycle race, 375–77, 387–88, 402, 418–19, 442, 458, 730
Mondale, Walter F., 326–27, 355–57, 595
Moore, Mike, 307–9
Morton, Thruston, 70, 92
Mount, Doug, 474, 546–47
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Dylan), 5, 343–44
“Murder of Ruben Salazar” (Thompson), 424, 448–49
Murphy, Dennis, 214, 227, 251–52, 277
Murphy, Mike, 408, 410, 423
Murray, William, 174–75
Muskie, Edmund, xx, 140, 357, 365, 472, 477, 494, 496, 520, 643
“My Gun Problem … and Theirs” (Thompson), 169, 172, 174, 179, 183, 189–90, 196, 200–203, 216, 225–26, 266, 272, 299, 334, 424–26
Nation, The, xv, 13, 20–22, 49, 56, 91, 164, 186, 189, 221, 254, 335–36, 602
National District Attorneys’ Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, xix, 377–78, 383–84, 387, 442
National Observer, The, xv, 20, 43, 49, 70, 109, 186, 251, 257, 277, 303, 336, 351, 442n, 456, 596–97, 601–4, 720
National Rifle Association (NRA), 102–7, 122, 135–36, 138, 141, 161–62, 165–66, 169, 172, 174, 179, 183, 196, 200–203, 205, 225, 325, 334
NBC News, 70
Neftzger, Carrie, 594–95
Nesbit, Lynn, 44, 50, 83–84, 91, 103–9, 121–23, 135, 146–47, 170, 178–79, 203, 211–12, 263–64, 266–67, 297, 299–301, 310, 319, 365–71, 377–78, 384, 397, 403, 406, 419–20, 431–34, 441, 491, 497, 519, 526–27, 532, 577, 589, 610, 612, 617, 636, 640–42, 646–49, 651, 654–56, 667, 670, 677, 691, 708–9
New American Review, 316–17
New Hampshire, xvii, 10, 33–35, 41–42, 44, 49, 51, 93–95, 99–100, 102–3, 149, 164–65, 172, 218, 334, 418, 422, 424–26, 465–69, 502, 612, 639, 719–21
New Journalism, The (Wolfe and Johnson), 526
New Republic, The, xv, 91, 111, 186, 351n
Newsweek, 12, 73–74, 86, 91, 94, 131, 139, 141, 186, 196, 213n, 454, 480, 492, 502, 535, 558, 612, 617, 620–21, 629, 640, 660–61, 681–82, 689–90, 694
New York City, xv, 6, 14–15, 21–22, 24, 27, 33–35, 42, 54, 57, 67, 76, 89, 93, 108–12, 125, 140–41, 143–46, 149, 164, 212–13, 221, 225n, 277, 296
New Yorker, The, 292n, 420, 456n
New York Post, 221, 451n, 466n, 524
New York Times, The, xv, xviii–xviii, 12–13, 15, 20, 33, 41, 58, 62, 76, 91–92, 96, 101, 112, 128–29, 162n, 185–87, 218, 220, 254, 270, 292n, 296, 301, 306, 313–14, 336, 345, 352, 356, 364, 374, 404–5, 410–11, 413, 421, 439, 454, 456, 467, 492, 521, 534, 566–67, 573, 591n, 593, 633, 651–52, 655, 657–58, 664, 678–79, 680n
Nguyen Van Thieu, see Thieu, Nguyen Van
Nitze, Paul, 18, 209–10, 215, 229, 289
Nixon, Richard M., xvii, xx–xx, 1, 16–17, 33–35, 41–44, 49–51, 61, 76, 93–95, 98–100, 102, 105, 108, 113, 122, 124–26, 128, 131–32, 134, 136–37, 147, 149, 151, 160–61, 164, 169–71, 176, 187–88, 200, 205, 216, 218, 227, 245, 247, 250, 256, 260, 263, 266, 268, 292, 294, 296, 310–11, 313–17, 332–35, 339, 364, 404–5, 418, 421–26, 438, 443, 451–52, 456n, 461, 468–69, 475, 479, 487, 490–95, 497–99, 503, 505, 519, 528–33, 535, 546n, 550, 553, 556, 569, 574n, 575, 577–79, 581–83, 586–90, 592–95, 601–2, 604, 621n, 623, 635, 637n, 638, 656n, 658, 659n, 668n, 683n, 686–88, 711, 712n, 713, 721–22, 730
Noonan, Bill, 182, 246, 366, 374, 410, 415, 681, 683, 702–3
Norman, Geoffrey, 641n, 650, 661–62
Notre Dame, University of, 685–86
Nugent, Pat, 60
Oakland Raiders, 505, 560, 565–66, 687
Obey, David, 594–95
O’Brien, Lawrence, 211, 315–16, 473, 484, 530
O’Connor, Thomas H., 180, 187–88, 271
Olay, Lionel, 399, 449
Oliphant, Pat, xvi, 292, 294–95, 306–7, 310, 314, 317, 664–66
“Only Serious People Can Laugh” (Thompson), 329–30
On Press (Wicker), 411
On the Road (Kerouac), 44n, 421
“On the Road” (Kuralt CBS News segments), 68, 188
Orth, Franklin, 104–5, 107
Other America, The (Harrington), 24
Overseas Press Club, 27
Pageant, xvii, 33, 35, 41, 51, 76, 93–94, 99, 102, 162–63, 424
Palevsky, Max, xiii, 361–62, 365, 380–81, 416, 453, 455, 544–45, 563–64, 566, 600–601
Palmer, Bud, 61–63, 128–29, 193
Palmer, Laura, 613, 620, 622, 625, 628–29
Parker, Dan, 513, 649
Paxton, Tom, 132, 483
Penguin Books, 91
Penzer, Mark, 418–20
Peretz, Martin, 556–57
Perian, Carl, 148–49, 179–80, 202
“Perla” (Acosta), 39, 43
Perla Is a Pig (Acosta), 255, 272
Perry, Charles, 349, 457, 513
Peterson, Carrie, 318–19
Petitclerc, Denne, 351, 353
Picasso, Pablo, 501, 694n
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 50
Pierce, David, 57–58, 172
Pitkin County, Colo., xviii, 45, 57, 68–69, 96–97, 232, 238–39, 250, 259, 279, 285, 289–91, 298–99, 301, 312, 327, 333–34, 363n, 366n, 517, 529, 721
Playboy, xii, xvi, 92n, 164, 167, 171–72, 178–79, 183–84, 186–87, 190–91, 195, 216, 221–23, 225–26, 257, 260, 266–67, 269, 284, 287, 367, 424, 519, 524–25, 531, 538, 565, 596–97, 641, 661, 677, 681, 728
Plimpton, George, 25, 571, 598
Podhoretz, Norman, 60–61
Police Chief, The, 316, 323–26
Politics of Ecstasy, The (Leary), 170–71
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 184
Powell, Jody, 699–700, 706
“Presenting: The Richard Nixon Doll” (Thompson), xvii, 424
“Press in Chicago, The” (Thompson), 140
Price, Raymond K., 41, 317, 404, 531
“Prince Jellyfish” (Thompson), xv
Prisendorf, Tony, 451–52, 455–57
Private Eye, xvi, 295, 306, 310
Profitt, Nicholas, 660, 681, 683
Proud Highway, The (Thompson), xii, xv, xxi
Pump House Gang, The (Wolfe), 143, 266–67
Quinn, Sally, xxi, 536, 642–48, 655, 657
Radford, Arthur W., 101–2
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Wolfe), 337–38
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (Dylan), 5
Rafelson, Bob, 365–66, 399–400, 415, 426, 432–33, 667–68, 670, 692–96, 719
Ramparts, xvi, 13, 15, 33, 65, 120, 122, 130, 141, 168, 170–71, 186, 222–23, 256–57, 260, 287, 293, 311, 354, 369
Random House, xii–xii, xvii–xvii, 12, 14, 18, 21–22, 29, 44, 49–50, 57, 69–72, 85, 89–93, 96–98, 100, 102–3, 108–9, 119–20, 123, 125, 127, 131–32, 134–35, 140–44, 146, 149, 160–61, 163, 165, 168–69, 173, 178, 182, 185, 190, 195, 205–6, 213, 215, 224–25, 227–28, 232, 249–50, 256–57, 267, 272, 275–77, 279, 297, 312, 318–19, 327, 331, 337–38, 353, 367, 369–70, 374, 376–79, 381, 387–88, 395, 398, 400, 403, 405, 407, 409, 416–17, 420, 422, 427–28, 430, 432n, 433–35, 442–43, 449–50, 457–59, 466–67, 475, 477, 491, 510–11, 514–16, 519, 521–26, 545, 549, 553, 643, 649, 666, 680n, 717, 724
Rape of the Virgin Butterfly, The (Smith), 539
Ray, Elizabeth “Lee” (aunt), 203–4, 344–45
Ray, John (uncle), 84
Ray, Velma H., 702
Raza, La, 86, 186, 253, 285, 362
Reagan, Ronald, 80, 166, 240, 583, 681
Realist, The, 16n, 171, 232, 280, 327–28, 577
“Real Nixon, The” (Thompson), 452
Republican National Conventions, 49, 70–71, 98, 100, 102, 109, 485, 490–91, 714
Reston, James “Scotty,” Jr., 218, 292, 374, 381, 404–5, 624
Reuther, Walter, 49, 209–10, 212, 215, 556n
Ribicoff, Abraham, 127–28
Ridley, Clifford, 149, 257, 602–4
Rinzler, Alan, 379, 382, 388, 403, 428, 433, 441, 447, 449, 474–76, 491–92, 522, 575–77, 589, 648–50
Rivers, Mendel, 60
Robbie, Joe, 545, 558
Robbins, Tom, xxii, 683–85
Rock, Arthur, 354–55, 360–61, 364–65, 380
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 494, 583, 638n, 647, 653
Rodino, Peter J., 587–88
Rogers, Deborah, 517–18
Rolling Stone, xvii–xvii, 186, 226, 261, 288, 289–91, 298, 313, 327–28, 334–36, 338–40, 342–44, 348–49, 351, 354, 355n, 356, 359–63, 365–71, 374, 376–79, 382–83, 385–88, 390–97, 399–400, 402–3, 407, 409–14, 418, 422–23, 425, 427–28, 430, 433, 435, 440–44, 446–58, 460, 465–66, 469–70, 472, 474–75, 480–81, 484–86, 488, 490–93, 496–97, 500–503, 512–15, 520–22, 524–25, 530, 532–34, 536–37, 539, 541, 544–45, 554, 558–60, 562–66, 573–75, 578–79, 581, 587, 589–95, 602, 609–16, 619–21, 628, 630–33, 635–36, 639–42, 648, 654, 656–69, 677, 687–89, 691, 696, 698–99, 701, 707–11, 718
Romanowski, Al, 542
Romney, George, 42
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 493, 513n, 727n
Rosetti, Thomas E., 302–3
Roth, Philip, 184
Roybal, Edward R., 39, 240
Royko, Mike, 210, 501
Rudd, Hughes, 129–31, 139–41, 175–76, 188, 191, 193, 200, 208–10, 212–13, 229–31, 241–43, 299, 304–6, 498, 524–25, 536, 675, 727
Rum Diary, The (Thompson), xv, 29, 33, 36, 38, 58–59, 108, 111, 131–35, 142, 168–70, 177–79, 249–51, 262–63, 353, 397–402, 417–18, 426, 429, 431–33, 720
Rusk, Dean, 16
Ruwe, Nick, 93–95, 574
Sack, John, 366, 369–70
Salant, Richard, 209–10, 212
Salazar, Ruben, xix, 359–62, 366–68, 379, 386–87, 393–96, 397n, 403, 406, 412, 424, 446–49, 561n
Salinger, J. D., xv
Salinger, Pierre, 539, 679, 686–87
Salisbury, Harrison, 218, 421, 679
Salter, James, xvi
Sampson, Karen, 53–54
Sanchez, David, 87, 112
Sand, George (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant), 74
Sanders, Ed, 441–42, 456
San Francisco, Calif., xiv–xiv, xviii, 5, 7–11, 41, 60, 70, 98, 100, 102, 109, 157, 171, 173–74, 214, 279, 287, 288
San Francisco Chronicle, xiv–xiv, 5, 8, 62, 91, 101, 186–87, 196, 310–11, 351n, 534n, 602
San Francisco Examiner, The, 451
San Juan Star, 66, 75, 131, 401
Sapper, Doug, 629–30, 689–90
Saturday Evening Post, The, xv
Scanlan’s Monthly, xvi, xix, 120, 221, 247, 256–57, 260, 269–70, 273–74, 283–84, 287, 309, 314, 319–22, 324–26, 328, 332, 334, 336–38, 340, 342, 357–59, 362, 365–68, 371, 373–74, 389, 395–96, 424, 451, 514, 679n
Scanlon, Paul, 349, 492–93, 496, 513, 613, 620–21
Schine, G. David, 60
Schneider, Bert, 397–402, 432–33
“Scum Also Rises, The” (Thompson), 595
Searle, Ronald, 292, 294, 306
Select, John, 689–91
“Selling of the My Lai Massacre, The” (Eszterhas), 440
Semonin, Paul, 12, 201, 277, 429, 431, 577–78
Semple, Robert B., Jr., 41
Sergeant, The (Murphy), 227, 252
Sevareid, Eric, 69, 196, 210, 212, 624
Shapiro, Selma, xiii–xiii, 12, 57–59, 123–25, 182–85, 190, 249, 351, 353–54, 385, 667–68
Shaw, Clay, 64n
Sherrill, Robert, 201–3, 225
Shir-Cliff, Bernard, 15–17, 26, 46–48, 56, 59–60, 71–72, 91, 100, 123, 168–70, 177–78, 205, 211–12, 227–29, 262–64, 432, 434, 469–71
Shriver, Sargent, 487, 494, 661–62
Shultz, Larry, 55
Silberman, Jim, xii–xii, xix, 18, 22–26, 44–45, 50, 69–72, 89–93, 97–98, 100–103, 109–11, 122–24, 143–44, 146, 160–66, 168–70, 177–79, 185–87, 195–97, 205–6, 211–12, 215–17, 257–69, 297–99, 306, 312–13, 331–35, 337, 340, 354, 367–70, 377–79, 381–88, 392, 395–97, 402–3, 405–10, 417–18, 420–29, 431, 433–35, 441–42, 458, 470, 475, 491, 510–12, 521–23, 539, 545–49, 589, 649, 656, 666–70, 717–23
Sinclair, Upton, xviii
Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara, 90, 165, 204
Skiers’ Gazette, 164, 224, 307
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 527–28
Slick, Grace, xiv, 9, 235n
Smith, Jim, 64, 74
Smith, John Macauley, 38
Smith, Valerie, 539
Solheim, Michael, 280, 324, 514, 541–42, 679
Solotaroff, Ted, 683–85
Songs of the Doomed (Thompson), 280, 717
Sorensen, Theodore, 48–50, 223
Sorrels, Rosalie, 278, 280, 324, 521
Spider magazine, 99
Spock, Benjamin, 92
Sports Illustrated, 375–77, 379, 382, 387–88, 418–20, 435, 729–30
Stanton, Frank, 193, 210, 212, 242
Steadman, Ralph, xvi–xvi, 245, 292, 295–97, 304, 306, 309–10, 313–14, 319–22, 326, 341, 372, 388, 427, 449, 457–59, 490–92, 517, 534, 537, 548, 571, 589, 688
Stearns, Rick, 482, 486, 496, 499, 530–31, 570, 581, 643, 670, 698
Steele, Robert, 395, 660
Steinbeck, John, xxi
Stermer, Dugald, 223, 283
Stevenson, Adlai, 209, 260, 424, 445, 707
Stout, Bill, 213
Stout, Richard, 612
Straight Arrow Books, xvii, 354n, 361, 418, 427, 441, 474, 476, 491–92, 497, 515, 524–25, 528, 553, 559, 565, 575, 589, 611n, 636, 643
Stranahan, George, 78, 82, 381, 408, 442, 551–52, 703
“Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” (Thompson), 361–62, 366–68
Streshinsky, Ted, 198–99
Strugnell, Lynne, 159–60
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 15
Styron, William, 184–85
Sullivan, Ed, 27, 92
“Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy, The” (Thompson), xvi
Terkel, Studs, xv, 124, 193, 196, 210
Thibeau, Tim, 167, 189, 272, 430
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 343n, 621, 623
Thompson, Davison (brother), 51, 67, 77–78, 136–38, 142, 172–73, 275, 284, 293, 366n, 374, 702–3
Thompson, Jim (brother), 14, 15, 24, 28, 36, 41–42, 50–52, 67–68, 77–78, 83–84, 137–38, 142, 173–74, 274–75, 284, 293, 314, 374
Thompson, Juan (son), xxi, xxv, 2, 37–38, 51–52, 57, 81, 110, 137, 140, 142, 146, 172–74, 181, 226, 443, 462, 506, 509, 548, 555, 674, 683, 693, 703, 728
Thompson, Sandy (wife), xvi, xxi, xxv, 12–13, 15, 37–38, 41–42, 51–52, 57, 71, 76, 101, 112, 142, 149, 167, 173–75, 177, 182, 185–86, 191, 197–99, 203, 214, 226–27, 229–31, 246, 257, 261, 275–76, 278, 284, 286–87, 293, 337–38, 353, 374, 379, 391–92, 410, 415, 441, 443, 448, 454, 506, 513, 517, 525–27, 529–30, 532, 539–40, 548, 555, 558, 581, 591–92, 600, 617, 621, 642, 649–50, 668, 672, 683, 687, 693, 700, 704, 728
Thompson, Virginia (mother), 14–15, 28, 41–42, 66–68, 84, 138, 141–42, 173–74, 181–82, 274–75, 284, 293–95, 373–75, 515–16, 553–55, 702
“Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines” (Thompson), 424
Time, 14, 36n, 55, 91, 111, 139, 156, 186, 195–96, 210, 215, 275–77, 284, 287, 314n, 420–21, 481, 536, 612, 618, 694, 697, 707–9, 728–30
r /> Today (NBC News show), xiv
Trilling, Lionel, 49
Trudeau, Garry, xxi, 657–59
Truscott, Lucian, 385, 405, 410, 417–19, 456, 580–87, 597, 599
Tuck, Dick, 478, 532–34, 539, 554, 660–61, 690, 706
Tuohy, William, 681, 683
Turman, Lawrence, 131–35, 250–51
Twain, Mark, viii, xxii
Udall, Stewart, 64–65, 73–76
United States Information Agency (USIA), 60n
Unruh, Jesse M., 114, 240
Uris, Leon, 217, 230
Vanderschmidt, Tom, 376, 729–30
Van Dyk, Ted, 500–501, 543
Vare, Ned, 289, 312, 363–64
Varner, Kelly, 18–19
Vietnam; Vietnam War, xi, xx, 6–7, 11, 13, 33, 36, 41, 45n, 51, 54, 60n, 67–68, 78, 84, 92, 102n, 103, 125, 132, 162n, 172–73, 176, 181, 231–32, 241, 258, 306n, 317, 343, 354, 360, 365–66, 368–70, 374–75, 377–79, 395, 403–5, 407, 410–11, 417–18, 426, 433, 437–40, 448n, 453, 499, 556n, 583–84, 605–7, 613–30, 632–33, 638, 640–41, 645–46, 650–51, 660–61, 678–82, 689, 691, 720
Village Voice, The, 405, 539, 580, 597–99, 611n, 632–33, 643, 688
Vo Dan Giang, see Giang, Vo Dan
von Hoffman, Nicholas, 66, 316–18
Vonnegut, Kurt, 516, 521, 527–28, 604
Von Schmidt, Eric, 278, 324
Wagner, Carl, 499, 544, 559–60, 570, 581, 591, 653, 670–71
Walinsky, Adam, 532, 544, 556, 559–60, 570, 576, 581–82, 670
Walker, Gerald, 12–14, 20, 58, 112
“Walking Nervous Breakdown” (Brower), 597–99
Wallace, George C., xx, 108, 126, 132, 134, 137, 140, 162n, 477, 482, 495, 671
Wall Street Journal, The, 65, 70, 102, 290n, 454, 492, 545, 643
Walsh, John, 564–65, 590, 592
Warhol, Andy, 92
Warren, Gerald L., 492, 604
Warrior, Clyde, 56
Washington Post, The, 66n, 316–17, 454, 456–57, 493–94, 522, 529n, 535–36, 558, 578–79, 603, 630, 636, 642–43, 659, 663
Washington Star, The, 381n, 451, 453–54, 456, 663, 665, 697n
Watergate, xi–xi, xvii, xxii, 505, 519, 524–25, 528–32, 535, 539, 553, 569, 688, 721
Waters, Muddy, xviii
Wayne, John, 435–39
WBAI-FM, 707–9
Webster, Daniel, 10
Wenner, Jann, xiii, xviii–xviii, xxi, 283, 288–92, 298, 327, 334, 336, 342n, 349, 354–55, 359–70, 375, 377–82, 384–88, 390–94, 402–5, 407–10, 414–17, 423, 426–28, 440–42, 444, 447–58, 465–69, 472–76, 480–87, 490–91, 496–97, 501–3, 512–15, 524, 532–34, 536–37, 557–60, 562, 564–65, 570–71, 573–79, 581, 589–92, 600, 609–12, 616–17, 619–26, 628–29, 631–36, 641, 643, 648–52, 654–56, 667, 669–70, 675, 677–81, 687, 689, 691–92, 705–6, 708–9, 714, 721