The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Harper Collins Moral Ambition reminds us that

Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate

never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language

and Greg isn’t cut out for an old-fashioned world

junior naturalists search for ferns

Others race to survive

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson Harper Collins Moral Ambition reminds us thatBegun in 1959 by a twenty two year old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get rich quick schemes rule, and anything (including murder) is