Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine...
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The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism, covered the US presidential campaign for Rolling Stone magazine alongside the establishment newsmen of Washington. The result is a classic piece of subversive reportage and a fantastic ride on the rollercoaster of Hunter's uniquely savage imagination. In his own words, written years before Watergate: 'It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.'
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007204489 (0007204485)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
Politics,
American History
Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo take on the 1972 presidential election was such an obvious choice for this year I thought I’d have to start bribing some young journalism majors who snagged it for class back in September months before we really thought the chaos would endure past Iowa and New Hampshire. I...
Woah. The politics are more or less incomprehensible to me, but ocassionally things float up. It's hard to tell how much of Hunter's writing is something of a very good stylistic schtick and how much is the guy losing his mind. The writing is often great, and his loathing of Nixon so eloquent that I...
My second favorite novel of Thompson's after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Campaign Trail '72 is the epitome of the gonzo journalism experience. The author has just the right amount of straight journalism and personal experience which of course includes some of his own outrageous reactions and opi...
I enjoyed this book, but because I didn't know a lot about this period in American politics, quite a bit went past me. If you detest Richard Nixon, you'll probably enjoy at least some of this book. There's more traditional journalism (ie names & dates & actual events) in this book than any of HST'...
The persona of Hunter S. Thompson as some drug addled comedian trying to describe various elements of society was, I think, carefully crafted by the man himself. The point, to me, of his writings is that his allegedly inebriated comments make a whole lot more sense than other main stream sources. H...
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