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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374622381)
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xOne of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.
An evergreen classic that broke open the possibilities of creative nonfiction, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is Tom Wolfe's seminal New Journalist portrait of a counterculture in formation and a nation undergoing constant flux. Wolfe follows Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the 1960s, as he travels America with his band of Merry Pranksters, experimenting with psychedelics, running into Hells Angels, and bridging the gap between 1950s Beats and a burgeoning hippie movement. With curious and energetic prose, Wolfe tells the story of a new age in American culture while forever expanding our understanding of what journalism might be.
Author: Tom Wolfe
ISBN-10: 0374622388
ISBN-13: 9780374622381
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By Tom Wolfe
xTom 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.Recently Viewed Products
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