Hunter's Essay 'Fear And Loathing In The Bunker'

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The essay “Fear and Loathing in the Bunker” mainly focuses on the Authors view on how the election in 1968 affected that time zone. Also, it focuses on Richard Nixon a man who stayed in the white house and became president and is currently the president. The Author, Hunter Thompson; Realized that even before Nixon became president he had the same amount of power on republicans as Charles Manson. Hunter was a very straight forward type of guy and a little feisty. He informs us on his childhood and how he developed his political consciousness which all started by a letter he received from an old friend “The milkman”. I believe the main reason for Hunter’s essay was to explain how he felt towards what could’ve been the future president. Hunters

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