Hunter was famous for his drug-fueled observation of American culture at the end of the 1960s 

In Fear and Loathing: “I was tempted to start babbling crazily about Walter Cronkite: that he was heavy into the white slvery trade – sending agents to South Vietnam to adop orphan girls, then shipping them back to his farm in Quebec to be lobotomized and into brothels up and down the eastern seaboard” 

About Roxanne Pulitzer in “Songs of the Doomed” covering her court case, sex and cocaine, money and Palm Beach – about 15 pages are so that are laugh out loud hysterical.  “She was more like Marilyn Chambers than Cinderella.” “Roxanne Pulitzer is not a beautiful woman … she looks more like a jaded stewardess from Pan Am than an international sex symbol” 

Steadman, Walter Cronkite (the most trusted man in America), Roxanne Pulitzer (quote from his book), Gay Talese (New  or Gonzo journalism – gay was a contemporary of Hunter’s that emphasized narrative storytelling and immersive reporting