The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 1).

THOMPSON, Hunter S.; Foreword by William J. Kennedy.

Item Number: 146948

New York: Villard Books, 1997.

First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Tom, Hunter S. Thompson.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by William J. Kennedy. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

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.