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
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
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