Full name: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Author: Hunter S. Thompson Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Politics, History, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780345377968 0345377966

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's 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--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter. This book is part of the "The Fear and Loathing Letters" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Fear and Loathing in America" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Nancy Mitford Fear and Loathing in America by Hunter S. Thompson Too Brief a Treat by Truman Capote Between Father and Son by V. S. Naipaul Letters Home by Sylvia Plath The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy by Shelby Foote Love from Nancy by Nancy Mitford The Element of Lavishness by Sylvia Townsend Warner The Mitfords by Charlotte Mosley Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen What There Is to Say We Have Said by Suzanne Marrs The Joke's Over by Ralph Steadman Dear Genius by Ursula Nordstrom The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson