In 1972, Hunter S. Thompson followed George McGovern and Richard Nixon's campaigns for the presidency of the United States from New Hampshire to Florida, Milwaukee to Los Angeles. He returned, burnt-out, exhausted and cynical, to bring us this book - the best, fastest, hippest and most unorthodox account ever published of the American presidential campaign in all its pomp and madness. With characteristically transgressive and scorching prose, the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas lays bare the corrupt soul of the '72 campaign and the whole of American politics. The result is a fantastic ride on the rollercoaster of Hunter S. Thompson's savage imagination.