Includes index.

Prologue: The last days -- Part one--Beginnings. Rainbow Road ; The school on the hill ; Berkeley ; Turn on, tune in, drop out ; London calling ; Jane -- Part two-- Rolling Stone. The first issue ; A family affair ; Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, and the naked Beatle ; A brief visit to planet New York ; Trans-Oceanic Comics Company ; Me and Boz, sittin' on Otis' porch ; Talking Bob Dylan ; Altamont and the end of the innocence ; Helter skelter ; John Lennon and Hunter Thompson drop by ; Lennon remembers ; Putting together the home team ; The house on California Street ; A day in the life ; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ; The beast stirs in Big Sur ; Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ; Truman and Andy, Paul Bowles and Uncle Earl ; A wonder of American journalism ; From Elko to Egypt ; Farewell to Ralph J. Gleason ; Becoming bicoastal ; The scoop of the seventies -- Part three--The empire. The Big Apple ; John Belushi, incoming ; Out tenth anniversary ; Christmases with Jackie ; The dry heaves ; Asleep at the wheel ; The dream is over ; Fuck the NRA ; God has his hands full ; Diamond rash, limousine elbow ; The Hall of Fame ; The Bonfire of the Vanities ; The gift of God ; Yoko and the Gorbachevs ; My father's death ; Altitude adjustments ; The king and queen of pop ; Blue highways ; Bill Clinton and the three stooges ; A visit to the White House ; The death of Jackie Onassis ; Matt -- Part four--Settling down. Passages ; A visit from Jane ; The best magazine in America ; Only the good die young ; All out for Al ; My city of ruins ; My private Idaho ; Watching the river flow ; Kerry loses ; Hunter Thompson, R.I.P. ; Hunter redux with Johnny Depp ; Magazine wars ; They say it's yer birthday ; The wheel of life ; Is it rolling, Bob? ; Burning Man ; "Higher and higher" ; The runaway general ; The wrecking ball ; The road to Rio ; The million-pound shit hammer ; Bad moon rising ; The gathering storm -- Part five--Goodbye to all that. Selling Rolling Stone ; The road to recovery ; My last letter from the editor.