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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 | |