{"product_id":"proud-highway-saga-of-a-desperate-southern-gentleman-1955-1967","title":"Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"deliriously entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of letters that takes us inside the twisted mind of Gonzo journalist and acclaimed political analyst Hunter S. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliantly bizarre . . . a celebration of the '60s.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thompson has become the F. Scott Fitzgerald of our time.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePassionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Highway\u003c\/i\u003e offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur\/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0345377966\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780345377968\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Thompson, Hunter S., Kennedy, William J., Brinkley, Douglas\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Apr 1998)","offer_id":46079981322437,"sku":"9780345377968","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780345377968.jpg?v=1776033395","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/proud-highway-saga-of-a-desperate-southern-gentleman-1955-1967","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}