How Thompson changed the face of contemporary nonfiction - and of America itself - is the mesmerizing story of The Proud Highway.
With the publication of these extraordinary letters, written from the time of his high school graduation in 1955 through the triumph of his first book, Hell's Angels, in 1966, critics and fans can finally trace the development and maturation of a singular talent, one of our era's most important voices. Thompson they've imagined but never known.
In The Proud Highway, readers will find a Hunter S. Play audiobooks and excerpts on SoundCloud desktop and mobile. 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.Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter - a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky.īefore there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson - the military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering sports for his Florida base's newspaper.īefore there was Fear and Loathing, there was Dow Jones - that is, Thompson's early reportage for that company's National Observer, which raised the standard for hip and provocative foreign coverage.īefore there was Rolling Stone, there were job applications everywhere - in hopes of being hired by a paper, pretty much any paper, an obsession for the starving writer with expensive tastes in alcohol, nicotine, and room service. Play Download The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 - Hunter S.
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. Overview: Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists-Hunter S. The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S.
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