The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson

Harper Perennial, 2008. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. In Very Good+ condition. With brief gift inscription by and signed by both authors; scarce thus. A collection of short anecdotes about the infamous author, Hunter Thompson. Cleverly and Braudis were longtime friends of Thompson from the town of Woody Creek, Colorado where he lived. They were part of his “inner circle” of friends and spent lots of time hanging out with him at his house or in town, saw many of the people coming and going in Thompson’s life at home. Bob Braudis was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. When his father received a corporate transfer the whole clan moved to Buffalo, New York in 1959. He graduated from St. Peter Canisius, a Jesuit prep school in Buffalo, and then acquired his B.A. in History, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. During college, he married and became the father of two daughters, Heidi and Stephanie. Skiing, and a burgeoning counterculture attracted him and his family to Aspen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. His skill-sets of anti-war activism, anti-authoritarian rebellion against the drug laws and a pervasive mistrust of government made him an ideal candidate for deputy sheriff in Pitkin County's radical sheriff's office. His product was peace and he was good at it. After eight years of cop experience and two years as a County Commissioner, he ran for the office of sheriff, was elected and then re-elected five times.