Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973. Read this in Spring 1984. Replay and throw in a plague too.
I had read some of Thompson's work prior in magazine articles prior to this and was not particularly a big fan of his gonzo style of alternative journalism in the 70's but certainly did want to hear what he had to say.
I read this during the 1984 presidential campaign between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale which Reagan in a landslide despite the already growing signs of his Alzheimer's disease which including confusion and forgetful behavior.
Over the next couple of years in the mid 80's I would also read his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas from 1971 and Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga from 1966.
None of that has prepared me for the Fear and Loathing on the 2020 campaign trail yet to come.
None of that has prepared me for the Fear and Loathing on the 2020 campaign trail yet to come.
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