Hunter S. Thompson and the Wildest Town Sheriff Campaign in US History
Hunter S. Thompson and the Wildest Town Sheriff Campaign in US History Nadja Sayej, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail. In fact, he once had a campaign of his own — when he ran for county sheriff in the pristine, patrician ski village of Aspen, Colorado, in 1970. That campaign — including a trove of never-before-seen footage — is now the subject of a new documentary called Freak Power: The Ballot Or The Bomb. It’s a tale of classic Nixon-era angst, with Thompson pushing for change in a time when “stability” was the guiding ...