Freak Power - Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph Watkins (2015-05-03) - Hardcover
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Hunter S. Thompson came home from the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago disgusted yet motivated by what he’d seen: protests violently suppressed, riots, corrupt politicians and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he found more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments were targeting hippies, charging them with absurd crimes, harassing them on the streets and trying to push them out of town. He knew something had to be done and he realized it had to be done by people like himself. The hippies, intellectuals, and freaks had remained silent long enough. The time had come to organize and seize political power. Freak Power tells the story of Hunter’s plan to become Sheriff, take control of Aspen and transform it from a conservative mining town into a mecca for artists, rebels and activists. Through original print material from the campaign, photographs and political art, Freak Power chronicles a little known period in Hunter S. Thompson’s life, a period when he wrote prol
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Daniel Joseph Watkins is a writer, producer, and director based in Aspen, Colorado. His first book, Thomas W. Benton: Artist / Activist won the Colorado Book Award and his second book, Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff, served as the inspiration for the documentary film Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb. Watkins runs the publishing company Meat Possum Press and serves as director of Fat City Gallery where he has curated over fifty shows and manages traveling museum exhibitions.
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Freak Power - Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff
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Meat Possum Press, 1845
ISBN 10: 0996454500
ISBN 13: 9780996454506
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Seller: Manitou Books, Manitou Springs, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Expanded second edition. Signed by author (Daniel Joseph Watkins) on title page--no inscription, just signature. Otherwise inside is clean and unmarked. Smudging on fore-edge of book block (see photos 13 and 14). Dust jacket has wear at edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges. See photos. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # ABE-1767560615205
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Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff
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The Meat Possum Press Inc, Aspen, CO, 2020
ISBN 10: 0996454500
ISBN 13: 9780996454506
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Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition. Expanded second edition, hardcover, signed by Watkins on the title page, the book has a light skew to the binding, as well as some gentle rubbing to the covers, and overall, is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, moderate rubbing to the covers, and mild wear to the edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 215128