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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967(1 Gonzo Letters)

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967(1 Gonzo Letters)


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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 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.

About the Author :
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books on politics and society were regarded as groundbreaking among journalists, and he was celebrated as one of the early practitioners of an outraged, irreverent form of highly subjective journalism that became known as gonzo journalism. His numerous articles for Rolling Stone and books like Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brought him wide recognition and cultlike status. Douglas Brinkley is an acclaimed historian and award-winning author of many books, including six New York Times bestsellers. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "America's New Past Master." His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and his two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize. Other awards he has won include the Frances K. Hutchison Medal, Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Lifetime Heritage Award. He is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. Malcolm Hillgartner is an accomplished actor, writer, and musician. Named an AudioFile Best Voice of 2013 and the recipient of several Earphones Awards, he has narrated over 250 audiobooks.

Review :
"Proud Highway proves as meaty as most bios on Thompson--and way more fun." -- "Entertainment Weekly" "Another insightful masterpiece from the finest southern gentleman since Colonel Harland Sanders. Read these letters but do not, under any circumstances, give this man your number." -- "Johnny Depp" "Brilliantly bizarre...A celebration of the '60s." -- "USA Today" "Deliriously entertaining." -- "Time" "Fear and loathing, aphorism and malediction, mischief and indigence fill this galvanically gonzo collection of Thompson's early letters." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "For its bile and outrageousness...this is peerless...By turns exasperating and entertaining, this is also a devastating portrait of the writer as an incorrigible outsider." -- "Publishers Weekly" "Some of the finest political and social writing of our times." -- "Seattle Times" "Takes the air out of airmail and replaces it with pure, compressed, explosive hydrogen...You've never gotten any letters like these." -- "P. J. O'Rourke " "This collection rivals any Thompson biography." -- "Booklist" "Thompson enjoyed messing up wherever he could, but he never lost a grip on his desire to become a damn good writer. This is a shot in the liver for struggling writers and a searing testimony to an important moment in American journalism. Highly recommended." -- "Library Journal" "We get overdosed with surprises...Astonishing." -- "Newsweek" "Wicked humor and bracing political conviction." -- "New York Times"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781482998313
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
  • ISBN-10: 1482998319
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2014
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 1 Gonzo Letters


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