Books like The proud highway by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson’s spirited gonzo narrative mixes a motorcycle race trip to Las Vegas with a wild drug‑laden search for the American dream, blending humor with sharp satire on 1960s counterculture and consumerism.

When nobleman Peter Vibart rejects a wealthy inheritance to become a village smith, he must navigate romance, social customs, and a rescue mission in a bustling rural community.

A collection of unseen letters from Hunter S. Thompson, spanning 1968–1976, reveals his rise as a reporter and author, his political ambitions in Aspen, and his groundbreaking work for Rolling Stone, offering a raw view of a transformative era in U.S. history.

A candid oral biography that captures the chaotic life of Hunter S. Thompson through the voices of friends, family, and collaborators, revealing his revolutionary journalism, personal struggles, and controversial legacy.

For the first time: the only known contemporaneous written record of Whittaker Chambers's thoughts during the trial of Alger Hiss. In 1948, Chambers, a former Communist agent, and a Time magazine editor, fingered Hiss, a senior State Department official, as a Soviet spy - triggering the most famous espionage trial in American history. Ralph de Toledano, the Newsweek reporter covering the Hiss trial (technically for perjury), quickly became close friends with Chambers. The two men began exchanging letters in 1949 and continued for the rest of Chambers's life. Now, in Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers-Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960, these letters have been collected and made available for the first time. Chambers, best known for his moving personal memoir, Witness, is portrayed here as a man of deep philosophical and spiritual thought. Included are Chambers's reflections on the state of American liberalism, his opinions of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, his words of personal anguish suffered after the close of the trial, and his thoughts on the fate of Western civilization.