Read Proud Highway:Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman Online
Authors: Hunter S. Thompson
TO DEBORAH FULLER & TAMMY CIMALORE
AND
TO ED ABBEY,
WHO WORKED THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT
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ALSO BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72
The Great Shark Hunt
The Curse of Lono
Generation of Swine
Songs of the Doomed
Screwjack
Better Than Sex
The Rum Diary
Kingdom of Fear
Hunter S. Thompson (1937â2005) was a journalist and novelist who created what came to be known as “Gonzo journalism.” A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he began writing as a sports columnist in Florida, and subsequently wrote for many newspapers. His research on the Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlawsâriding, loafing, plotting, and eventually being stomped. Thompson's other works include
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
, and
The Rum Diary
(a novel).
D
OUGLAS
B
RINKLEY
is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and professor of history at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of such award-winning books as
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
(1993),
Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years
, 1953â1971 (1992), and
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal
(with Townsend Hoopes, 1992). Professor Brinkley is currently writing a multivolume biography of former president Jimmy Carter and is the co-author with historian Stephen Ambrose of
Rise to Globalism
. He is also the poetry commentator on National Public Radio.