Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Disentangling Gonzo -- Notes -- Chapter One: A Pompous Contradiction in Terms -- Wild Bursts of Madness -- Freak Power -- Notes -- Chapter Two: Getting Hold of the Drugs -- A Relatively Respectable Citizen -- Treacherous, Stupid and Demented in Every Way -- Notes -- Chapter Three: Reality Itself Is Too Twisted -- A Living Human Body -- Hallucinations Are Bad Enough -- Notes -- Chapter Four: Shallow, Contemptible, and Hopelessly Dishonest -- The Double-Standard Realities -- The Realm of Speculation -- Notes -- Chapter Five: Cheap Thrills -- The Last Possible Second -- At Least Neo-Respectability -- Chapter Six: A Very Hard Dollar -- A Hell of a Lot of Money -- 'Spuen-tan-EUS?' -- Notes -- Chapter Seven: Pictures of the Riot -- 'Don't They Respect Anything?' -- A Sea of Drunken Horrors -- Notes -- Chapter Eight: This Bedrock Sense of Professionalism -- The Conditions of My Turning Pro -- Whatever Seems to Be Happening Down There -- Notes -- Chapter Nine: What Sort of Journalist I Was -- An Honest Living -- Neutrality Is Obsolete -- Notes -- Chapter Ten: The Place of Definitions -- Private, Human Time -- What Used to Be Called the American Dream -- Bibliography -- Index.