As I noted in the post prior to this, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer are my go-to writers when it comes to topnotch US presidential campaign coverage. I linked to an excerpt from Mailer's book on 1972, St. George and the Godfather yesterday. Today, I am providing a link to a collection of random excerpts from Hunter S. Thompson's classic Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/timewarp-campaign-72-19730705
enjoy it and weep
I can't imagine what HST would be writing about the current situation..., without resorting to unhealthy doses of extremely mind altering substances :) I have reread F&L CT several times during presidential election cycles..., not this year.
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