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I have read from the 120's to 220

As the book moves into the seventies Thompson gets into politics more. He talks about his planes to run for certain offices and how to get so and so elected. He carefully strategies how to win the 1976 presidential campaign by running in '72. Thompson talks about how he came up with the famed phrase fear and loathing, while riding in a car and worried about getting arrested. Thompson set up a secret meeting of the top political heads to set the platform for the '76 election. Hunter also went to Saigon to cover to action over there near the end of the Vietnam war. At the beginning of the eighties he covers the Pulitzer trial, and southern Florida craziness. "The Silk Road" an uncompleted novel about the Cuban immigration movement(freedom flotilla).

themes
-the American dream is mention several times but is never bluntly stated.
-politics had been a big part of Thompson's life
-craziness, but being right in the middle of it and writing as if it was happening right then

Thompson doesn't really use symbolism in his writing. He does make a lot of references to the American dream, The Great Gatsby, and relating his writing to ideas or charters in The Great Gatsby.