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Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72
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From the Book - 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed., 40th anniversary ed.
Introduction / Matt Taibbi --
Author's Note --
December 1971 --
Is This Trip Necessary? --
Strategic Retreat into National Politics --
Two Minutes & One Gram Before Midnight on the Pennsylvania Turnpike --
Setting Up the National Affairs Desk --
Can Georgetown Survive the Black Menace? --
Fear and Loathing in Washington --
January --
The Million Pound Shithammer --
Pros Scorn the Youth Vote --
Fresh Meat for the Boys in the Back Room --
"The Death of Hope" & A Withering of Expectation --
Another McCarthy Crusade? --
John Lindsay? --
The Rancid Resurrection of Hubert Humphrey --
Violence in the Press Box & Mano a Mano on TWA --
Who Is Big Ed & Why Is Everybody Sucking Up to Him? --
February --
Fear & Loathing in New Hampshire --
Back on the Campaign Trail in Manchester, Keene & the Booth Fish Hatcheries --
Harold Hughes Is Your Friend --
Weird Memories of '68: A Private Conversation with Richard --
Nixon --
Will Dope Doom the Cowboys? --
A First, Massive & Reluctantly Final Judgment on the Reality of George McGovern --
Small Hope for the Hammer & No Hope at All for the Press Wizards --
March --
The View from Key Biscayne --
Enter the Savage Boohoo; Madness & Violence on the "Sunshine Special" --
Lindsay Runs Amok, Muskie Runs Scared --
First Flexing of the Big Wallace Muscle; First Signs of Doom for the Democrats --
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here --
Except Maybe Ted Kennedy --
Later in March --
The Banshee Screams in Florida --
The Emergence of Mankiewicz --
Hard Times for the Man from Maine --
Redneck Power & Hell on Wheels for George Wallace --
Hube Slithers out of Obscurity --
Fear and Loathing on the Democratic Left --
April --
Stunning Upset in Wisconsin --
McGovern Juggernaut Croaks Muskie --
Humphrey Falters; Wallace Rolls On --
Big Ed Exposed as Ibogaine Addict --
McGovern Accosts the Sheriff --
Bad News from Bleak House: Mojo Madness in Milwaukee; or How Nazis Broke My Spirit on Election Night --
Mankiewicz Predicts First Ballot Victory in Miami --
May --
Crank Time on the Low Road --
Fear and Loathing in Ohio & Nebraska --
Humphrey Gets Ugly, McGovern Backs Off --
Delirium Tremens at the National Affairs --
Desk --
Acid, Amnesty & Abortion --
Massive Irregularities on Election Night in Cleveland; Death Watch in the Situation Room --
Wallace Gunned Down in Maryland --
Showdown Looms in California --
June --
California: Traditional Politics with a Vengeance --
Return of the Vincent Black Shadow --
The Juggernaut Roars on; McGovern Troops Ease off as Polls Predict Sweeping Victory --
Hubert's Last Stand: Vicious Attacks, Desperate Appeals, Strange Tales of Midnight Money from Vegas --
Free Booze & Foul Rumors in the Press Room --
Ominous Eleventh-Hour Slump Reveals Fistula in McGoverns Woodpile --
Later in June --
Mass Burial for Political Bosses in New York --
McGovern over the Hump --
The Death by Beating of a Six-Foot --
Blue-Black Serpent --
What Next for the Good Ole Boys? --
Anatomy of a Fixer --
Treachery Looms in Miami --
July --
Fear and Loathing in Miami: Old Bulls Meet the Butcher --
A Dreary Saga Direct from the Sunshine State --
How George McGovern Ran Wild on the Beach & Stomped Almost Everybody --
Flashback to the Famous Lindsay Blueprint & A Strange Epitaph for the Battle of Chicago --
More Notes on the Politics of Vengeance, Including Massive Technical Advice from Rick Stearns & the Savage Eye of Ralph Steadman --
Dark Interlude --
August --
Down & Out in the Fontainebleau --
Nixon Sells --
Out the Party --
Goldwater on the Comeback Trail; Agnew in {OCLCbr#91}76 --
Mankiewicz Amok; Midnight --
Violence at The Wayfarer --
The Origins of Eagleton; Death Rattle for the New Politics --
Can a Bull Elk in the Rut Pass through the Eye of a Camel? --
A Vicious Attack on the Demonstrators: "These People Should Go Back Where They Belong" --
September --
Fat City Blues --
Fear and Loathing on the White House Press Plane --
Bad Angst at McGovern Headquarters --
Nixon Tightens the Screws --
"Many Appeared t
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9781464043505
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9781464043505
9781451691573
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