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The Proud Highway - Rejacketed (Paperback)
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The Proud Highway - Rejacketed (Paperback)
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List price R541
Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
You Save R97 (18%)
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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 -- the
military's answer to Grantland Rice, protecting America by covering
sports for his Florida base's newspaper.
Before 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.
Before 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.
In The Proud Highway, readers will find a Hunter S. Thompson
they've imagined but never known. With the publication of these
extraordinary letters, written from the time of his high school
graduation in 1955 through the triumph of his first book, Hell's
Angels, in 1966, critics and fans can finally trace the development
and maturation of a singular talent, one of our era's most
important voices. How Thompson changed the face of contemporary
nonfiction -- and of America itself -- is the mesmerizing story of
The Proud Highway.
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