The proud highway : saga of a desperate southern gentleman, 1955-1967 / Hunter S. Thompson ; foreword by William J. Kennedy ; edited by Douglas Brinkley.
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TextSeries: The Fear and loathing letters ; v. 1Publication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 1998.Edition: 1st Ballantine Books edDescription: xxxii, 683 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0345377966 (pbk.) :
- 9780345377968 (pbk.)
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 070.92 T472 | Available | 33111005003815 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes index.
Originally published: New York : Villard, c1997.