After the Hells Angels episode, Thompson went on to write for Rolling Stone magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, failed magazine Scanlan's, and wrote several well-regarded books. This collaborative friendship came to a grinding halt when the Hells Angels discovered that Thompson did not plan to share any of the book's proceeds with the club (although in a later interview Barger said all Thompson owed them was a keg of beer) and they viciously stomped him, nearly to death. He became quite close friends with the Oakland chapter and then Hells Angels big man Sonny Barger. He quickly rose to fame after writing his seminal work, Hells Angels - A Strange and Terrible Saga, which describes the time he spent riding around with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937–2005), aside from being someone we all might aspire to be one day, was an American journalist, writer, small-time politician, drug abuser, heavy drinker, chain- smoking, gun-toting explosion-liker and all around nice guy. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. Please research the article's assertions. This page contains too many unsourced statements and needs to be improved.
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