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Show Rolling Stone Often Gossipy There have been many books written about the 1972 presidential campaign, but none are as entertaining or as unorthodox as Timothy Crouse's THE BOYS ON THE BUS and Hunter Thompson's FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. Crouse is a bright young reporter for ROLLING STONE. In 1972, the magazine mag-azine assigned him the task of following their political reporter, Hunter Thompson, around with bail money. Instead of writing about the campaign, as Thompson was doing, Crouse wrote about the reporters covering cover-ing the candidates. In his book, he details their habits, backgrounds, likes, idiosyncracies, and personal feelings about the men and women who ran for president that year. This book is an insightful and often gossipy account of the men and women who cover the news, and it's well worth reading. After all, where else can you find out that many CBS reporters consider Walter Cronkite a television hog! Hunter Thompson has covered cov-ered everything from Hell's Angels to the Superbowl for ROLLING STONE. He is not an objective reporter by any means; he dislikes most of the candidates, believing them to be weak and scheming schem-ing liars. Thompson once ran for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak ticket, calling for free mescaline. mes-caline. During the 1972 campaign, he admits he consumed considerable con-siderable quantities of hallucinogens hal-lucinogens and his reporting report-ing is somewhat affected by this. When reading Thompson, if you have never read him before, keep in mind he mixes fact with fiction and it's up to you the reader to figure out what really happened. hap-pened. Still, Thompson's book . makes provacative and stimulating stim-ulating reading and I highly recommend it. Both selections are available avail-able at Dolly's. -(LB). |