Then you should check out
Fear and Loathing on the Campign Trail and give it a read (again?). It's widely considered the best book ever written about a campaign.
Sure, he was a pretty one-note writer--by the 80's, his schtick had worn pretty thin, I'd say--but
Hell's Angels and
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are terrific books. The beginning of
Fear and Loathing is my favorite book beginning ever:
QUOTE
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like \"I feel a bit lightheaded....maybe you should drive\". And suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming \"Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals\".