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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
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Tom Wolfe
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from USA supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 144 pages | | Published In: | United States, 01 July 2009 |
Classic Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" ("The Wall Street Journal") dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
"On the night of January 4, 1970, Maestro and Mrs. Leonard Bernstein threw a bash in their thirteen-room park Avenue pad to raise money for the Black Panthers Defense Fund. New York society will probably never play Lady Bountiful in quite the same way again, because among the Beautiful People present was Tom Wolfe, pop sociologist and parajournalist supreme."--"Book World" |
About the AuthorTOM WOLFE is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as "The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff," and "I Am Charlotte Simmons." He lives in New York City.
Reviews" ""What Tom Wolfe has done is create an appallingly funny, cool, small, deflative two-scene social drama about America's biggest, hottest, and most perplexing problem--the confrontation between Black Rage and White Guilt."--"Time "magazine
"Wolfe's genius is that he is fair; he puts the Bernstein part in perspective against the background of New York social history. Read it and weep with laughter."--"Houston Post"
"A sociological classic . . . At Wolfe's hands the socialites get a roasting they will long remember."--"Saturday Review"
"Tom Wolfe understands the human animal like no sociologist around. He tweaks his reader's every buried though and prejudice. He sees through everything. He is as original and outrageous as ever."--"The New York Times"
"Uproariously funny and socially perceptive . . . a penetrating dissection of the confusion among the classes and the search for status."--"Women's Wear Daily"
"Tom Wolfe at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent."--"San Franciscio Chronicle"
"Absolutely brilliant. One of the finest examples of reporting and social commentary I have read anywhere."--Gay Talese
| Publisher: | Picador USA | | ISBN: | 0312429134 |
| EAN: | 9780312429133 | | Dimensions: | 20.57 x 13.72 x 1.02 centimeters (0.18 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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