The Con Man welcomes William McKeen, the professor of journalism at the University of Florida at Gainesville, who has just completed his second book on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr., “Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson.” Among the questions asked: was he destroyed by drugs and alcohol–or celebrity? And what’s his place in the pantheon of American writers?
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