After Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side; Hunter S. Thompson seems like an odd subject for Alex Gibney to take on. Unlike the Enron executives or Baghram guards; the gonzo journalist didn't bilk old ladies out of their savings or torture Iraqi citizens. Nonetheless; the director's follow-up to the Oscar-winning Taxi shares an interest in the uses and abuses of power. Gibney recounts the major biographical details; from birth to suicide; but his film really comes alive when he gets to the late-1960s. Though Thompson remains best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Gonzo concentrates on his coverage of the 1968 and '72 presidential elections. The author was particularly excited about George McGovern; and chose advocacy over non-partisan reporting. McGovern; Pat Buchanan; Ralph Steadman; Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner; and others testify to Thompson's enthusiasm for the South Dakota senator--and hatred for Nixon. Gibney argues that the fire started to die after Hunter witnessed the brutal treatment of protesters at Chicago