The Great Shark Hunt - Strange tales from a Strange Time er en fyldig samling av artikler fra bl.a. The Reporter, The National Observer og The New York Times magazine. President Nixon er en av mange som får verbal juling i boka: Richard Nixon has never been one of my favourite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.