The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalistsHunter 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 Baeznot to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editorsThompson 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.
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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalistsHunter 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 Baeznot to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editorsThompson 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.
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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1
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ISBN-13: | 9780345377968 |
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Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 04/07/1998 |
Series: | Fear and Loathing Letters Series , #1 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 720 |
Sales rank: | 187,752 |
Product dimensions: | 5.46(w) x 8.19(h) x 1.60(d) |
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