Hunter Thompson loves his job. I can never quite gauge where he sits on the left wing of American politics, but his hatred for the Republican elite is almost boundless. Having been born after Watergate and the extreme upheaval of post-war America and the 60's, his eulogy of Richard Nixon seemed certainly on point, if a little extreme as compared to the puff pieces run by the national media. That is, until I've been wading into this and have found that even Thompson didn't even understand the depth or breadth of his corruption. I haven't read Summers's other books, but this one is impeccably researched and documented. Having read Summers's account, one can turn to Nixon himself for explanations, albeit not a rebuttal, in either Six Crises or his memoirs.
- posted by levinson @ 11/27/2000 11:57:00 AM