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