Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (Gonzo Papers, vol. 4) by Thompson, Hunter S - 1995

Ballantine Books, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-poli tical black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty tra il again--without leaving home--yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign--in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, a nd dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Cli nton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, Geor ge Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all eve r penned by man or beast. "[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelie vable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and rep rints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes (Memorable." --Los Angeles Daily News "What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say w hat others are afraid to (.[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure (.In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to re ad Hunter Thompson." --Richmond Times-Dispatch "While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly.