Hunter S Thompson’s Freaks Have Overrun America

In the early Seventies, America looked to be all played out. The postwar industrial boom that powered its golden age of capitalism was starting to run trade deficits, civil unrest was destabilising communities, individualism was undermining generational solidarity, and a mean conservative reaction was forming against Sixties social liberalism. Together, these forces were unpicking the mythologies that had held the country together for decades.