"leagues in the 1960s and early '70s ??? writers such as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Gail Sheehy, Jimmy Breslin and Hunter S. Thompson ??? was not a matter of doing it differently, but rather doing more of it and doing it much more self-consciously than it was done in the past." . . . . . . . . . .