"You can beat City Hall," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Woody Creek, Colo., where he is still obviously high (emotionally) over Bill Clinton's defeat of George Bush in the Presidential election. Giddy, like a pee-wee football player whose team had won its first game. Thompson, the cynical, drug-infused, strange, gonzo guru and expert on self-medication, actually sounded T may sound hard to believe, but Hunter S. It’s also worth watching a related clip below, where Thompson elaborates on Carter, his famous speech and his alleged mean streak that put him on the same plain as Muhammad Ali and Sonny Barger (the godfather of The Hells Angels).DecemBook Notes: On the Trail Again By ESTHER B. You can read the full text of Carter’s speech here. But I don’t think I ever realized the proper interrelationship between the landowner and those who worked on a farm until I heard Dylan’s record, “I Ain’t Gonna Work on Maggie’s Farm No More.” So I come here speaking to you today about your subject with a base for my information founded on Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan. After listening to his records about “The Ballad of Hattie Carol” and “Like a Rolling Stone” and “The Times, They Are a-Changing,” I’ve learned to appreciate the dynamism of change in a modern society. The other source of my understanding about what’s right and wrong in this society is from a friend of mine, a poet named Bob Dylan. And Carter particularly caught Thompson’s attention when he traced his sense of social justice back to a song written by Bob Dylan: Speaking before a gathering of alumni lawyers, Carter upset their celebratory occasion when he dismantled the criminal justice system they were so proud of. It happened at the University of Georgia School of Law on May 4, 1974. Above, Thompson recalls the day when Carter first made an impression upon him. And inevitably he crossed paths with Jimmy Carter, the eventual winner of the election. The Gonzo journalist covered the ’76 election for Rolling Stone Magazine. But his political writing hardly stopped there. Thompson may have reached some journalistic apogee with his coverage of the ’72 Nixon-McGovern campaign.
But if you’re looking for one bottom-line explanation, it probably comes down to this: Says Taibbi, “Thompson stared right into the flaming-hot sun of shameless lies and cynical horseshit that is our politics, and he described exactly what he saw-probably at serious cost to his own mental health, but the benefit to us was.
Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political writing for many reasons. Thompson wrote F ear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” says Matt Taibbi in a new edition of the book.
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