Finished Ken Kesey’s novel ‘Sometimes A Great Notion Today’ today. It was probably the most exhausting book I’ve read. The detail Kesey included to describe logging in the Pacific Northwest plus the rough and tumble lives of all the characters was at a very high energy level which left me feeling somewhat drained. This afternoon I began and at the time I write this am 3/4 thru ‘Vote’ by Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Ed Sanders. I commented to someone that I had learned more useful information/insights/usable truths in the first 60 pages about the Yippie’s involvement in the 1972 Presidential party conventions in Miami Beach than I got out the entire 600 pages written by Kesey. (and no, I’ve not seen the movie version)
soylent soup for the soul 
Follow them up with Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson, and you’ll see an interesting 360 perspective.
I read Fear & Loathing many years ago. Also enjoyed ‘The Boys On The Bus’ by Timothy Crouse who wrote about just the reporters who followed the ’72 primaries. Hoffman/Rubin/Sanders mention some of the same incidents that appear in the other books. I was still (clueless) in high school at the time and remember the McGovern-Nixon contest for all the wrong reasons. The books helped clarify what happened much later for me.