Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781451691573
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451691580
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Journalist Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The 50th anniversary edition of “the best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process” (The New York Times Book Review) featuring a new foreword from Johnny Knoxville.

A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson “the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism” (The New York Times). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written—and that is just as relevant to the many ills and issues roiling the nation today. As Johnny Knoxville writes in his foreword to this 50th anniversary edition: “Hunter predicted it all.”

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction by Matt Taibbi
• Author’s Note
• Chapter 1: December 1971
• Chapter 2: January
• Chapter 3: February
• Chapter 4: March
• Chapter 5: Later in March
• Chapter 6: April
• Chapter 7: May
• Chapter 8: June
• Chapter 9: Later in June
• Chapter 10: July
• Chapter 11: Dark Interlude
• Chapter 12: August
• Chapter 13: September
• Chapter 14: October
• Chapter 15: November
• Chapter 16: Be Angry at the Sun
• Chapter 17: December
• Epitaph
• About Hunter S. Thompson
• Endnotes
• Copyright