Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouacâs muse and the basis for the character âDean Moriartyâ in Kerouacâs classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Keseyâs merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus âFurther,â immortalized in Tom Wolfeâs The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassadyâs life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the âSoul of the Beat Generationâ in his own wordsâsometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassadyâraw and uncut.