Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable,
these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling
Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of
President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator
George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic
Party''s primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it
splits between the different candidates.
With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his
jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race
for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a
political vision that is eerily prophetic
關於作者:
Hunter Stockton Thompson July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005
was an American journalist and author who wrote Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas 1971 and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ''72
1973.
He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of
reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such
a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is
known also for his unrepentant lifelong use of alcohol, LSD,
mescaline, and cocaine among other substances; his love of
firearms; his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon; and his
iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism. While suffering a bout
of health problems, he committed suicide in 2005, at the age of
67.