Radical Chic And Mau Mauing The Flak Catchers

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429961189

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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase 'radical chic' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1112516662

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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429961226

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Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429955003

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The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781429961202

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The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429961035

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe Pdf

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0718108191

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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429961325

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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Pdf

From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429979023

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Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the Year 2000 we can forget about necking. Today's girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is being introduced by name. And how rarely our hooked-up boys and girls are introduced by name!-as Tom Wolfe has discovered from a survey of girls' File-o-Fax diaries, to cite but one of Hooking Up's displays of his famed reporting prowess. Wolfe ranges from coast to coast chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers... to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new field of genetics and neuroscience. . . to the inner workings of television's magazine-show sting operations. Printed here in its entirety is "Ambush at Fort Bragg," a novella about sting TV in which Wolfe prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that would soon explode in the press. A second piece of fiction, "U. R. Here," the story of a New York artist who triumphs precisely because of his total lack of talent, gives us a case history preparing us for Wolfe's forecast ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts in America. As an espresso after so much full-bodied twenty-first-century fare, we get a trip to Memory Mall. Reprinted here for the first time are Wolfe's two articles about The New Yorker magazine and its editor, William Shawn, which ignited one of the great firestorms of twentieth-century journalism. Wolfe's afterword about it all is in itself a delicious draught of an intoxicating era, the Twistin' Sixties. In sum, here is Tom Wolfe at the height of his powers as reporter, novelist, sociologist, memoirist, and-to paraphrase what Balzac called himself-the very secretary of American society in the 21st century.

Author : John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691171661

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Money by John Kenneth Galbraith Pdf

Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects us all. He tells the fascinating story of money, the key factors that shaped its development, and the lessons that can be learned from its history. He describes the creation and evolution of monetary systems and explains how finance, credit, and banks work in the global economy. Galbraith also shows that, when it comes to money, nothing is truly new—least of all inflation and fraud.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781429924252

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From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe Pdf

After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influenced—and infected—America’s cities.

Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0940262320

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At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth by William Irwin Thompson Pdf

Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429960564

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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Pdf

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250338341

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The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe Pdf

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his next project, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The result is The Pump House Gang (published simultaneously with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968): a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists. Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe’s writing: status. In pieces about Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, and a gang of affluent teenage surfers, among others, Wolfe discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which he calls “starting your own league.” Dancers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes—everybody’s doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they’ve taken or just the service elevator. Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

Author : Larry L. King
Publisher : Viking
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015000563976

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Confessions of a White Racist by Larry L. King Pdf