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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe (2009, Trade...
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312429134
ISBN-13
9780312429133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72435053
Product Key Features
Book Title
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Customs & Traditions, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
4.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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 confrotnation 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, "[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"[Tom Wolfe] understands the human animal like no sociologist around. . . . As original and outrageous as ever."--The New York Times"Beneath the absurdity, the hilarious scenes, there is the counterpoint of the human situation."--Los Angeles Times"Absolutely brilliant. One of the finest examples of reporting and social commentary I have read anywhere."--Gay Talese, "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, Uproariously funny and socially perceptive . . . a penetrating dissection of the confusion among the classes and the search for status., 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., 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., A sociological classic . . . At Wolfe's hands the socialites get a roasting they will long remember., "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, "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 confrotnation 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, Absolutely brilliant. One of the finest examples of reporting and social commentary I have read anywhere., 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.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Synopsis
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is 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, 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., 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
LC Classification Number
E185.615
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