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Title	:	Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Author	:	Hunter S. Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 481 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2006 by Warner Books (NY) (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. History. Writing. Journalism

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Paperback | Pages: 481 pages

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Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it splits between the different candidates.

With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic

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Original Title:	Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
ISBN:	0446698229 (ISBN13: 9780446698221)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hunter S. Thompson
Setting:	United States of America

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How does one classify a book which is ostensibly a journalistic account of the 1972 presidential campaign but is actually more about its author, both essayist about (Thompson is loose, very loose, with the facts) and participant in the events he describes? With misgivings, I classify this as autobiography--albeit, again, loose, very loose, with the facts.This is not Thompson's best book. Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in LasVegas are both better. Indeed, it is pretty clear that this was a

It Wasnt the End5 February 2019 One of the things that I kept wandering as I read this book was how did people perceive Nixon prior to the Watergate Scandal blowing up in his face. I wonder whether he was as much of a polarising President as a certain one today, and did people view the ascension of Nixon in the same way that they viewed the ascension of Trump, that is whether it would be the end of the United States as they knew it. Well, they have lasted at least another fifty years, but I

while this book doesn't carry the same cultural cache as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it is a fascinating look into the cesspool that is the political machine. Thompson's disdain of Richard Nixon is both funny and quaint by today's standards given the current United States president. if you are into the counterculture, and HST fan, a political junkie, or just want to learn more about the era and zeitgeist of the early 1970s, then check this out. it is written in the typical Gonzo Style. just

I dont know that Ive ever read a book so simultaneously enjoyable and frightening.

Nixon was the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of America, the subversion of the working class, the abuse of minorities, the testament to pure greed for money and power, that has led the Republican Party from the sensible charity and honesty of Eisenhower, to the depths of the terrifying clown, Trump, and his obscenely evil opportunists in the wreckage of the GOP.Hunter was here, at this moment of Nixon's criminal grab for power, close to the center of the obscenity, but only allowed to

while this book doesn't carry the same cultural cache as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it is a fascinating look into the cesspool that is the political machine. Thompson's disdain of Richard Nixon is both funny and quaint by today's standards given the current United States president. if you are into the counterculture, and HST fan, a political junkie, or just want to learn more about the era and zeitgeist of the early 1970s, then check this out. it is written in the typical Gonzo Style. just

The P.E. teacher, S.S. Gruppenführer Mr. Martin, in my view, was a sick bastard. If I'd known the word fascist at the time, I'd have called him that, too, but I was only 10 years old and not well informed. It was inimical to the power structure of Sanders Elementary School to undermine their own authority by telling us, and certainly, therefore, not their inclination to yank from his neck the lanyard that held the whistle that was always perched between his lips for constant blowing, which he