I read Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 in my early 20s, and was absolutely enthralled. In some ways, Thompson and his New Journalism contemporaries anticipated political blogging, with its polarized viewpoints and highly idiosyncratic writing.
Read the CBC story here. (If you’re wondering how thoroughly the New Journalism was trounced after the 1970s, consider that this is cast as a story from the arts.)
