
380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"
The Fifth Column
How Did You Score the Big Interview With Hunter Thompson?
"I came and shooting guns. I'm not going to tell you what I was not doing or doing," he says. "Well, that's just journalistic malpractice." Thompson bought a two ton World War II airplane cockpit simulator for the interview. He later tried to sell it to Johnny Depp but it rusted in his yard. 'If I didn't do that, would I be an actuary? What would my career be?' asks Robert Kagan.
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