Hunter S. Thompson
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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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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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| Title | : | Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 |
| Author | : | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 481 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2006 by Warner Books (NY) (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Politics. History. Writing. Journalism |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 19170 Users | 819 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
I dont know that Ive ever read a book so simultaneously enjoyable and frightening.There are a few books-- very few-- I read that, after I've finished and if they've left an impression on me, I track down and purchase an original 1st edition printing of it to put up on my shelf (perhaps my daughter will read them one day and have a better understanding of who I am; maybe I just like to collect beautiful things). This is one of those books. It's a rare feat to be both timely and classic, and regardless of when you pick this one up, you'll find Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign
Hunter Thompson brings the same weird wit, fragmented headspace, and undeniable charm to this account of the 1972 presidential race. He's a man with political views after my own heart.
Of all the possible books one can read, I picked up Hunter S. Thompsons Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 this year for two reasons. I wanted to know: 1. Are there parallels in Thompsons coverage to what were experiencing in the era of Donald Trump? Was the Nixon campaign, and was Nixon as a candidate, as depraved and absurd as what were seeing today?2. Should I regret not going on the campaign trail? Is following a campaign a desirable pursuit for a journalist? Or do you just become
I miss Hunter S Thompson. He may have been a mad drug crazed writer, but his turn of phrase and his descriptions of decadence have always appealed to me. Any time I see Wild Turkey in a bar I order a shot as a secret tribute to him, even though whiskey isn't usually my thing.Reading Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail seems like more of an insight into what it must have been like to prize work out of Hunter S Thompson than anything else. I didn't really learn anything about American Politics
Hunter S. Thompson's political epic Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is a spiritual sequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson continues his scathing and satirical, as well as retrospective, critique of the sixties and early seventies. No other writer has written so well on those years.Campaign Trail... is a scathing account of American politics and presidential campaigns. Thompson's journey centers on the McGovern-Nixon '72 election. Like a massive drug trip, the book
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
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