Table of Contents
Prologue: The Last Days xi
Part 1 Beginnings
1 Rainbow Road 3
2 The School on the Hill 12
3 Berkeley 22
4 Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 31
5 London Calling 41
6 Jane 47
Part 2 Rolling Stone
7 The First Issue 57
8 A Family Affair 65
9 Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, and the Naked Beatle 72
10 A Brief Visit to Planet New York 81
11 Trans-Oceanic Comics Company 85
12 Me and Boz, Sittin' on Otis' Porch 92
13 Talking Bob Dylan 95
14 Altamont and the End of the Innocence 100
15 Helter Skelter 106
16 John Lennon and Hunter Thompson Drop By 115
17 Lennon Remembers 125
18 Putting Together the Home Team 130
19 The House on California Street 138
20 A Day in the Lire 144
21 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 150
22 The Beast Stirs in Big Sur 155
23 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 158
24 Truman and Andy, Paul Bowles and Uncle Earl 168
25 A Wonder of American Journalism 178
26 From Elko to Egypt 182
27 Farewell to Ralph J. Gleason 190
28 Becoming Bicoastal 194
29 The Scoop of the Seventies 204
Part 3 The Empire
30 The Big Apple 211
31 John Belushi, Incoming 220
32 Our Tenth Anniversary 225
33 Christmases with Jackie 235
34 The Dry Heaves 244
35 Asleep at the Wheel 250
36 The Dream Is Over 255
37 Fuck the NRA 259
38 God Has His Hands Full 265
39 Diamond Rash, Limousine Elbow 271
40 The Hall of Fame 278
41 The Bonfire of the Vanities 286
42 The Gift of God 293
43 Yoko and the Gorbachevs 301
44 My Father's Death 306
45 Altitude Adjustments 311
46 The King and Queen of Pop 316
47 Blue Highways 323
48 Bill Clinton and the Three Stooges 329
49 A Visit to the White House 338
50 The Death of Jackie Onassis 345
51 Matt 350
Part 4 Settling Down
52 Passages 361
53 A Visit from Jane 369
54 The Best Magazine in America 375
55 Only the Good Die Young 379
56 All Out for Al 383
57 My City of Ruins 392
58 My Private Idaho 398
59 Watching the River Flow 405
60 Kerry Loses 411
61 Hunter Thompson, R.I.P. 420
62 Hunter Redux with Johnny Depp 427
63 Magazine Wars 430
64 They Say It's Yer Birthday 438
65 The Wheel of Life 445
66 Is It Rolling, Bob? 451
67 Burning Man 463
68 'Higher and Higher' 472
69 The Runaway General 476
70 The Wrecking Ball 484
71 The Road to Rio 490
72 The Million-Pound Shit Hammer 498
73 Bad Moon Rising 505
74 The Gathering Storm 512
Part 5 Goodbye to All That
75 Selling Rolling Stone 525
76 The Road to Recovery 538
77 My Last Letter from the Editor 546
Acknowledgments 555
Permissions and Credits 557
Index 561