The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955–1967 audiobook, by Hunter S. Thompson... Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondenceof one of America’s most influential and incisive journalists—Hunter S.Thompson. In letters to a who’s who of luminaries, from Norman Mailer toCharles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez—not tomention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors—Thompson vividlycatches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through hisown 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 unprecedentedand penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageousraconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.