For the first time, the private and most intimate correspondence of Hunter S. Thompson, one of America's most influential and insightful journalists, is available for the first time. Thompson vividly captures the tenor of the times in 1960s America 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—and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. The dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating look into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating look into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
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