The private correspondence of America's outlaw journalist looks at Thompson's personal relationships from the mid-1950s through 1967
By turns exasperating and entertaining, this is also a devastating portrait of the writer as an incorrigible outsider; provides a revealing look at Thompson's relationships with Nelson Algren, Norman Mailer, Joan Baez, Charles Kuralt, and ...
How Thompson changed the face of contemporary nonfiction -- and of America itself -- is the mesmerizing story of The Proud Highway.
Indisputably a literary milestone, the public revelation of the private and most intimate letters of Hunter S. Thompson lays bare--better than even the most in-depth biography could ever do--the development, growth, and genius of one of ...
The Proud Highway, the closest Thompson will ever come to an autobiography, is both his perception of the sixties and a portrait of an intelligent writer forced to live as an outsider.
Before there was Gonzo, there was just plain Hunter -- a precocious, earnest, and occasionally troublesome honor student in Louisville, Kentucky. Before there was Doctor Thompson, there was Airman Thompson...