Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

tom wolfe

Two hilarious essays by the author of The Right Stuff show the white liberal establishment confronting the new subculture, with humorous and unexpected results. Reprint.

Genres nonfictionpoliticsessaysjournalismhistoryhumorsociologyclassicsculturalliterature

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1970

This edition

Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Published: October 5, 1999 by Bantam
ISBN: 9780553380620
ASIN: 0553380621
Language: English

About the author

Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.

Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.

He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Tom Wolfe is also famous for coining and defining the term fiction-absolute.

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