Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72
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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 television journalism, covered the US presidential battle 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 untreatably violent side of the American character nearly every additional country in the world has learned to dread and despise.’Amazon.com Review
With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Dread and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the resistant and seductive race for President. He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic. A classic!
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Dread and Loathing is just NOT dread and loathing when it takes a tedious and disappointing turn into polotics and additional extremely uninteresting matters. Hunter, what’s up man? Get back to the drug-induced random ravings and rantings. My advice is to stick with the orginal Vegas Loathing, this just doesn’t compare.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
April 2000
Hunter S. Thompson is an overrated rambling moron. Any sign of intelligence is either accidental, or really warped because he’s so tweeked and drunk all the time. He’s biased, he rambles, and he’s dull. Whenever he ongoing going into an appealing tale he permanently went off tangent. I am trying to be nice and objective about it, but this is just another volume of crap. Stick to Dread and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Its now September 2001 and as I see additional reviews for this book it looks as though I’m the only one that thinks this book sucked. My favorite part was when it finished. What I wrote before stands right to me still. Dread and Loathing was just one volume of his CRAP SERIES. It is mind boggling that people reflect so highly of this piece of junk.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was very pleased with the condition of the books, and even more pleased with the customer service.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I am fascinated by elections and campaigns, and the election of 1972 was especially appealing, and there is much to learn from it as many of the events in 1972 seemed to repeat themselves in 2004 and 2008. In 1972 and 2004, we were involved in a war that was beginning to lose support, scandals had broken (Watergate in 1972, Plamegate in 2004), and the Democratic candidate just couldn’t seem to get his act together.
In 1972 and 2008 we had Democratic campaigns that were described as “grass roots”. Obama’s victory is, in a way, McGovern’s victory 36 years later. Obama did what McGovern did, but did it competently.
So I really wanted to like this book. I already read Theodore White’s “The Building of the President 1972″, so I knew the facts, but I thought Hunter S. Thompson would provide more of the stark details that White may have establish too unappealing to clarify.
And, in a way, Thompson did that, but the book is so much more about Thompson and his drug habits than it is about the election. It could have taken place under any circumstances. Let’s say Thompson went on a European trip and got drunk and stoned . . . probably would end up being a pretty similar book.
I got more than middle through the book, and really loved how Thompson described his loathing for Muskie and Humphrey. I’ve never read such hateful prose about persons two, and it was pretty amusing.
But I got frustrated by his stream-of-consciousness prose and complaints about how he couldn’t meet his deadlines, so he’d just toss out some quick, unorganized thoughts. Very bone idle. And yes, I’m aware that drink and drugs were involved, influencing his ability to write comprehensibly and timely.
I reflect if you delight in books like “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” you’ll like this one. I don’t.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve read Dread and Loating in Las Vegas mayby three times and it is an incredible book. On the campaigntrail ‘72 HST tries to write a book that has the same driven crazy tempo and contains the same unbelieveable events. But he doesn’t suceed. First, it is too long and he takes the smallest event and tries to turn it in to something insane but it feels constructed and thin. But if you read the book as an example of altarnative political television journalism it has some excellent patrs. HST is one of the most exprimantal and avant-garde journalists i’ve ever read but he seems to have lost it in this book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5