Monday, June 15, 2020

Fear and Loathing

The What When Book List 1970 - 2020

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.


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