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.
A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. !! Your Purchase Helps To Support A Small Business !!.About the Book Originally published: San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.īook Synopsis 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. Your Satisfaction Is Always Our Goal And Guarantee. All Orders Are Shipped In A Bubble-Lined Envelope Within 24 Hours Of Processing Order. This Is Not A Former Library Book, No Clipped Corner's, Not A Book Club Edition. Off The Right Of This Typewriter, On The Floor Between The Beds, I Can See An 8X10 Print Of Frank Mankiewicz Yelling Into A Telephone At The Democratic Convention In Miami But That One Will Never Be Used, Because The God-Damn Hound Put Five Big Claw-Holes In The Middle Of Frank's Chest. Last Night We Has A Huge Paranoid Poodle Up Here In The Room, And The Dumb Bastard Went Totally Out Of Control When The Seals Started Barking-Racing Around The Room Like A Whicken Hearing A Pack Of Wolves Outside The Window, Howling & Whining, Leaping Up On The Bed & Scattering My Book-Galley Pages All Over The Floor, Knocking The Phone Off The Hook, Upsetting The Gin Bottles, Thrashing My Carefully Organized Stacks Of Campaign Photographs. Staying In This Place With The Windows Open Is Like Living Next To A Dog Pound. About Two Hundred Seals Have Been Barking Out There Most Of The Night. From My Desk I Can See The Dark Jagged Hump Of "Seal Rock" Looming Out Of The Ocean In The Grey Morning Light. I Can Hear The Rumble Of Early Morning Buses Under My Window At The Seal Rock Inn.Out Here At The Far End Of Geary Street: This Is The End Of The Line, For Buses And Everything Else, The Western Edge Of America. Dawn Is Coming Up In San Francisco Now: 6:09 A.M.
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