12 essential presidential campaign books
As the 2012 presidential campaign moves into its final weeks, it's being lifted by bear hugs and thrown off course by surprising misstatements. The shifts of fortune can make for compelling drama, even in the rearview mirror. Here are a dozen of the most notable books – brilliant, clear-eyed, anonymous, and even drugged out – about the presidential campaigns of recent history.
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'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72'( Magnolia Pictures )
Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary, under-the-influence coverage of the 1972 campaign for Rolling Stone was dubbed gonzo journalism. "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," was not, however, simply drug-addled madness; politically-informed Thompson could write like a demon and was driven by a sense of moral outrage.
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