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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.
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Mary Ellen Anderson
reviewed The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 on March 12, 2013 The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desparate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Imagine having your dream job of writing, only to be fired 10 times in a row, to then squander in poverty for 10 years with your wife and child, following your dream.... only to become famous for putting yourself in the center of a true story about the Hells Angels where you were almost beaten to death. Hunter lived an extraordinary life, and this hilarious book gives a behind the scenes look from his own Letters. Incredibly, Hunter kept copies of over 10,000 letters he wrote - before photocopying existed - because he felt he was going to be famous one day and wanted to publish a book of his letters. This is the book, and they are unashamedly honest, from getting fired for attacking a vending machine, to skipping out on rent many times on unsuspecting landlords. All in the name of pursuing a dream of writing for a living. Often hilarious and always genius, I highly recommend this book. Give it a few chapters to get going, to the college and Air Force years.
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