“Some of the finest political and social writing of our times.” - Seattle Times “We get overdosed with surprises…Astonishing.” “Brilliantly bizarre…A celebration of the ’60s.” - USA Today Thompson-and way more fun.” - Entertainment Weekly “Proud Highway proves as meaty as most bios on “Wicked humor and bracing political conviction.” - New York Times “Takes the air out of airmail and replaces it with pure, compressed, explosive hydrogen…You’ve never gotten any letters like these.” Read these letters but do not, under any circumstances, give this man your number.” - Johnny Depp
“Another insightful masterpiece from the finest southern gentleman since Colonel Harland Sanders. Liver for struggling writers and a searing testimony to an important moment inĪmerican journalism. Lost a grip on his desire to become a damn good writer. “Thompson enjoyed messing up wherever he could, but he never Raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn,Īnd never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedentedĪnd penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous Mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors-Thompson vividlyĬatches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his In letters to a who’s who of luminaries, from Norman Mailer toĬharles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez-not to Of one of America’s most influential and incisive journalists-Hunter S. Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence
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