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

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250321886)

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

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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Format: Paperback
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Reissued with an original introduction by David Brooks, 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.

Tom Wolfe's two-act dissection of 1970s race relations in America is incisive and thought-provoking, an indispensable study in how elite white pieties have often worked against the welfare of Black communities in the country.

Wolfe first takes readers back to his original scene of 1970s "radical chic" the party for the Black Panthers that Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia, hosted at their Park Avenue penthouse. Wolfe's unerring eye for the uncanny feasts on an improbable scene that would morph into today's cocktail activism--well-heeled elites signifying their sympathy with causes related to Black emancipation through social hobnobbing.

Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, meanwhile, unfolds on the other side of the country, in San Francisco's Office of Economic Opportunity, where Wolfe details with Kafkaesque absurdity the dysfunction, chaos, and corruption that waylays this outgrowth of the War on Poverty so that it inevitably ends up failing the underserved communities it's supposed to help.

Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN-10: 1250321883
ISBN-13: 9781250321886
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By Tom Wolfe
By Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade."

Among his many honors, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and a contributor to The Atlantic. He is a commentator on "The PBS Newshour" and founder and Chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project.

His forthcoming book "How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen" will be published in October. His previous three books were "The Second Mountain," "The Road to Character," and "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement," all #1 New York Times bestsellers.

Mr. Brooks has taught at Yale and Duke and now teaches at the University of Chicago. He has received over 30 honorary degrees from American universities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Follow him on Twitter @nytdavidbrooks

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