![]() ![]() Thompson they've imagined but never known. In The Proud Highway, readers will find a Hunter S. Whether written to his mother, Virginia, or to such luminaries as Charles Kuralt, Philip Graham, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Carey McWilliams, Lyndon Johnson, and Joan Baez, the letters represent the evolution of an American original, a singular voice defying an era of banality.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. ![]() ![]() With a vicious eye for detail, a rude wit, and a brutal take on any and all pretenders, Thompson's missiles pierce pomposity and rattle the soul. In the intervening years, Thompson's prolific and often profound correspondence gives us an unforgettable vista of the America of the Eisenhower and Kennedy years as well as an authoritative introduction to the cultural revolution of the sixties. Thompson was a wise (perhaps too wise) teenager in Louisville - and takes us through 1967, when the publication of Hell's Angels made the author an international celebrity (and nearly resulted in his death). ![]() This first volume of the Fear and Loathing Letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955 - when Hunter S. ![]()
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