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Since his 1972 trailblazing opus,Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. InBetter than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail againwithout leaving homeyet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaignin all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clintons top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast.
[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes...Memorable.--Los Angeles Daily News
What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to....[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure....In a year when all politics isto much of the publica tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson.Richmond Times-Dispatch
While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate....Thompson isnt afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out....He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target.Tulsa World
This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath.The Flint Journal
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CONFESSIONS OF A POLITICAL JUNKIE
'Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psychopolitical black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
When the going geti weird,
the weird turn pro**
Also by Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing; On the Campaign Trail '72
T he Great Shark Hunt
Tire Curse of Lono
Generation of Swine
Songs of the Doomed
Screwjack
The Proud Highway
The Rum Diary
Kingdom of Fear
THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP NEW YORK
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing GroupCopyright 1994 by Hunter S. Thompson
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Random House Publishing Group,4 division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada byRandom House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
This edition published by arrangement with Random House, inc.
A portion of this book was originally published in Rolling Stone.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Tie New' York Timesfor permission toreprint " 'Freak Power' Candidate May Be Next Sheriff in Placid Aspen" byAnthony Ripley (10/13/70). Copyright 1970 by The New York TimesCompany. Reprinted by permission.
Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
www.bal lant incbooks.com
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number; 95-94419
ISBN; 0-d45-39635-9
Cover photo by Louie Psihoyos
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition; September 1995
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To Nicole,
my vampire in the Garden of Agony
CONTENTS
The Old Woman and the Snake
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Amendment IV to the U.S. Constitution
I:
The Raven"
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PART ONE 1
Confessions of a shootist: Cruel humor on the campaign trail, from the murder of JFK to the crimes of the Marquis de Sadc CHAPTER 2: THE BOOK OF SCREEDS
IS
The roots of addiction: The degradation of American politics in the final years of the American Century...Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...Welcome to Mr. Bill's Neighborhood: The tragic story of one man's struggle with the forces of evil and greed on the campaign trail, from Kennedy to Clinton...
There is no such thing as an cx-junkic...
CHAPTER 3; SUMMER OF 'PI
Nightmare in Woody Creek...Invasion of the powermongers...Armed standoff with George Bush, trapped in a dead-end valley with the prime minister of England...Airport seized by suicidal gunman. Secret Service paralyzed.. Just how weird can you stand it, Bubba, before your love will crack?...
CHAPTER 4: 1992: THE HORROR, THE HORROR
Welcome to the year of the lizard...8 percent in the publicapproval polls: Stand back! I am the president and you're not...The rise of rhe Man from Hope...
CHAPTER StJULY: THE NIGHTMARE OF ROSS PEROT 71
A pig will walk in the wilderness,
a pig will walk on the sea.
A pig will walk wherever he wants,
but no pig walks on me.
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