Anita Thompson writes book.

It wasn't a reckless obsession with liquor, drugs and gunplay that made the late Hunter S. Thompson the undisputed king of Gonzo journalism, his wife says. Sooner, it was old-fashioned principles such as working hard and telling the truth, enlivened by the glee Thompson took from learning and from being powerful. "I don't deny his lifestyle, because his lifestyle was pretty extreme," Anita Thompson told The Associated Press, but that life style was made possible by his success as a reporter and source, not the other way close to. In her new book, "The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Orion S. Thompson," Thompson says her husband built his career with a tireless commitment to the craft of coverage, a keen awareness of his own shortcomings and his personal blend of patriotism: loving his country while mistrusting authority. And in a wide-ranging interview, she spoke about a falling out between her and Hunter Thompson's son and the agonizing doubts that dogged her in the years after on her husband�s suicide. Thompson shot himself in the kitchen of his home outside Aspen in Feb 2005 at age 67. He had established himself as an archetype and riveting sound with "Hells Angels," published in 1966, and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in 1972. It was Gonzo journalism irreverent, bizarre and unapologetically personal. The design it projected, coupled with his undisguised love of guns and explosions, gave Thompson a cover as an unbridled outlaw surfing on a kink of drugs and spare. Later On his death, Anita Thompson said, she got stacks of e-mails and letters from new people who thought they could duplicate his success by mimicking his infamous use. "They wrote me these letters about drinking bottles of Wild Turkey and doing grams of cocaine," said Thompson, a tall, outgoing, slender woman with shoulder-length dirty blond hair and a quick smile who munched on a salad during an interview at a Denver hotel. "And I realized, OK, I ask to right on that." Her book, published by Fulcrum Publishing, depicts the man who used the pseudonym Raoul Duke in his famous "Fear and Loathing," as a relentless researcher and a voracious reader.