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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

What does a presidential campaign really look like from inside the press pack in nineteen seventy two?

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At a glance

Author
Hunter S. Thompson

Why read it

  • You will see how campaign reporters, staffers and candidates shape each other's stories
  • You will learn how a campaign that won its party's nomination could still collapse by election day
  • You will understand how much campaign politics happens off the record, on press planes and in hotel bars

Who it is for

  • A campaign staffer who spends nights with the press corps
  • A journalist or student of political reporting
  • A voter tired of shallow campaign coverage

Contents

  1. Introduction by Matt Taibbi
  2. Author’s Note
  3. December 1971
  4. January
  5. February
  6. March
  7. Later in March
  8. April
  9. May
  10. June
  11. Later in June
  12. July
  13. Dark Interlude
  14. August
  15. September
  16. October
  17. November
  18. Be Angry at the Sun
  19. December
  20. Epitaph

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