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Fear and Loathing
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Fear and Loathing (1973) (edit title/settings)

On the Campaign Trail '72

by Hunter S. Thompson (Author), Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) (edit contributors)

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With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President.He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political... read more

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Hunter S Thompson brings his gonzo eye and poison pen to the 1972 Presidential Election. The future of America is feared and Nixon is loathed.

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  • Heavily Drugged Richard Nixon: Just like the real Richard Nixon we all know and...know, as parsed through Thompson's skewed lens. Bare witness as as his political handlers shuffle him around the country on planes while sedated in a narcotic torpor, only to be thrust into the waking world by injections of adrenaline just in time to get him on television. Marvel as he talks football, wonder as he taps into the darkest parts of the American character and rides the wave of seething fury to the White House and beyond!
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  • “Nixon was “a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn’t imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn’t quite reach the lever on the voting machine.””

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OUTSIDE MY NEW FRONT DOOR the street is full of leaves.

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  1. Hunter S. Thompson (Author)
  2. Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Straight Arrow Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 1973
ISBN: 978-0-87932-053-9
Page Count: 506

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