The Proud Highway

For the first time, the private and most intimate correspondence of Hunter S. Thompson, one of Americas most influential and insightful journalists, is available for the first time. Thompson vividly captures the tenor of the times in 1960s America in letters to a Whos Who of luminaries, from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez—not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors—and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. The dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating look into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating look into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.