Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72

Introduction / Matt Taibbi --

Author's Note --

December 1971 --

Is This Trip Necessary? --

Strategic Retreat into National Politics --

Two Minutes & One Gram Before Midnight on the Pennsylvania Turnpike --

Setting Up the National Affairs Desk --

Can Georgetown Survive the Black Menace? --

Fear and Loathing in Washington --

January --

The Million Pound Shithammer --

Pros Scorn the Youth Vote --

Fresh Meat for the Boys in the Back Room --

"The Death of Hope" & A Withering of Expectation --

Another McCarthy Crusade? --

John Lindsay? --

The Rancid Resurrection of Hubert Humphrey --

Violence in the Press Box & Mano a Mano on TWA --

Who Is Big Ed & Why Is Everybody Sucking Up to Him? --

February --

Fear & Loathing in New Hampshire --

Back on the Campaign Trail in Manchester, Keene & the Booth Fish Hatcheries --

Harold Hughes Is Your Friend --

Weird Memories of '68: A Private Conversation with Richard Nixon --

Will Dope Doom the Cowboys? --

A First, Massive & Reluctantly Final Judgment on the Reality of George McGovern --

Small Hope for the Hammer & No Hope at All for the Press Wizards --

March --

The View from Key Biscayne --

Enter the Savage Boohoo; Madness & Violence on the "Sunshine Special" --

Lindsay Runs Amok, Muskie Runs Scared --

First Flexing of the Big Wallace Muscle; First Signs of Doom for the Democrats --

Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here --

Except Maybe Ted Kennedy --

Later in March --

The Banshee Screams in Florida --

The Emergence of Mankiewicz --

Hard Times for the Man from Maine --

Redneck Power & Hell on Wheels for George Wallace --

Hube Slithers out of Obscurity --

Fear and Loathing on the Democratic Left --

April --

Stunning Upset in Wisconsin --

McGovern Juggernaut Croaks Muskie --

Humphrey Falters; Wallace Rolls On --

Big Ed Exposed as Ibogaine Addict --

McGovern Accosts the Sheriff --

Bad News from Bleak House: Mojo Madness in Milwaukee; or How Nazis Broke My Spirit on Election Night --

Mankiewicz Predicts First Ballot Victory in Miami --

May --

Crank Time on the Low Road --

Fear and Loathing in Ohio & Nebraska --

Humphrey Gets Ugly, McGovern Backs Off --

Delirium Tremens at the National Affairs --

Desk --

Acid, Amnesty & Abortion --

Massive Irregularities on Election Night in Cleveland; Death Watch in the Situation Room --

Wallace Gunned Down in Maryland --

Showdown Looms in California --

June --

California: Traditional Politics with a Vengeance --

Return of the Vincent Black Shadow --

The Juggernaut Roars on; McGovern Troops Ease off as Polls Predict Sweeping Victory --

Hubert's Last Stand: Vicious Attacks, Desperate Appeals, Strange Tales of Midnight Money from Vegas --

Free Booze & Foul Rumors in the Press Room --

Ominous Eleventh-Hour Slump Reveals Fistula in McGoverns Woodpile --

Later in June --

Mass Burial for Political Bosses in New York --

McGovern over the Hump --

The Death by Beating of a Six-Foot Blue-Black Serpent --

What Next for the Good Ole Boys? --

Anatomy of a Fixer --

Treachery Looms in Miami --

July --

Fear and Loathing in Miami: Old Bulls Meet the Butcher --

A Dreary Saga Direct from the Sunshine State --

How George McGovern Ran Wild on the Beach & Stomped Almost Everybody --

Flashback to the Famous Lindsay Blueprint & A Strange Epitaph for the Battle of Chicago --

More Notes on the Politics of Vengeance, Including Massive Technical Advice from Rick Stearns & the Savage Eye of Ralph Steadman --

Dark Interlude --

August --

Down & Out in the Fontainebleau --

Nixon Sells out the Party --

Goldwater on the Comeback Trail; Agnew in '76 --

Mankiewicz Amok; Midnight Violence at The Wayfarer --

The Origins of Eagleton; Death Rattle for the New Politics --

Can a Bull Elk in the Rut Pass through the Eye of a Camel? --

A Vicious Attack on the Demonstrators: "These People Should Go Back Where They Belong" --

September --

Fat City Blues --

Fear and Loathing on the White House Press Plane --

Bad Angst at McGovern Headquarters --

Nixon Tightens the Screws --

"Many Appeared to Be in the Terminal Stages of Campaign Bloat" --

October --

Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls --

November --

At the Midnight Hour --

Stoned on the Zoo Plane; Stomped in Sioux Falls --

A Rambling, Manic/Depressive Screed in Triple-Focus on the Last Day of the Doomed McGovern Campaign --

Then Back to America's Heartland for a Savage Beating --

Fear and Loathing at the Holiday Inn --

Be Angry at the Sun --

December --

Purging the McGovernites --

Shoot-Out in the Dung-Heap Corral --

Where Do We Go From Here: What Next for the "New Politics"? --

A Crude Autopsy & Quarrelsome Analysis on Why McGovern Got Stomped --

Epitaph --

Four More Years --

Nixon Uber Alles --

Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl.