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The Proud Highway

Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

By Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Hunter S./ Brinkley, Douglas Coupland, Hunter S. Thompson

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| Paperback | 9780345377968

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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 Continue

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.

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  • Hunter S. Thompson, Mahalo Share

    Hunter S. Thompson came to prominence by writing about what is was like lead the life of a madman. He wrote about hallucinogenic drug-fueled antics and savagely insulted and/or threatened just about any figure of prominence that came into his purview ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Mon, 21 Feb 2005

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 720 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0345377966
  • ISBN-13: 9780345377968
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Pub date: Apr 07, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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