''Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s'' is a book by the American writer and journalist

Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prom ...

, originally published in 1988. The book contains 100 of Thompson's columns that appeared from September 1985 to November 1988 in the ''

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'', which discuss the politics and culture of the 1980s, with significant coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair, and

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's run for president. He predicts that the Democrats will self-destruct in the 1988 presidential campaign. He also makes bets about the Democratic Party candidates odds of winning their elections. People he dislikes are described as "money-sucking animals," "brainless freaks," "geeks," "greed-crazed lunatics" and so on. Thompson also quotes from the Bible's

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in many instances. It is the second volume of the four-volume '' The Gonzo Papers'' series. Besides the first six columns (which front-load the collection by setting up the overtly political aspect of the book's main topics), the columns are presented in chronological order. One oft-quoted, and misquoted,About.com. David Emery
''Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free': Hunter S. Thompson meets the Internet via serial misquote''
. Retrieved on April 28, 2009. passage from Volume 2 is about the television broadcasting business, specifically television journalism:

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