A review by mattleesharp
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson

5.0

As comprehensive, engaging, and terrifying as a book on politics can be. No doubt whoever is currently working on the equivalent for Trump may surpass it, but Fear and Loathing was strangely reassuring in the current political climate in a kind of "things can always get worse" sort of way. Thompson pulls back the curtains in this book. It is necessary reading if you want to understand the origin of a lot of modern political hackery.