{"product_id":"book-vcni","title":"The Proud Highway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “deliriously entertaining” (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e) collection of letters that takes us inside the twisted mind of Gonzo journalist and acclaimed political analyst Hunter S. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Brilliantly bizarre … a celebration of the '60s.”—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Thompson has become the F. Scott Fitzgerald of our time.”—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Highway\u003c\/i\u003e offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur\/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50428426354992,"sku":"BDvcni","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vcni-cover.jpg?v=1765495467","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vcni","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}