Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers plus The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers plus The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe

RADICAL CHIC is Tom Wolfe's hilarious dissection of the need among wealthy liberals in late '60s America to be seen to support the correct political causes - even if that meant giving champagne receptions for the feared Black Panther Party. MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS takes a satirical look at how, during that period of cultural upheaval, minority groups from the ghettoes refined the art of intimidating the white bureaucracy. In these essays, Wolfe's supercharged yet consummately controlled prose transports the reader back to the heady days of hippie revolution and Black Power. THE PAINTED WORD is Wolfe's insightful, flamboyant and supremely readable survey of Modern Art. Taking in Picasso, Pollock and Warhol, he describes the tense relationship between bohemian artists and their wealthy patrons, and concludes that modern art is Theory - the paintings and sculptures themselves are mere illustrations of the text. 'Tome Wolfe is a journalist who always manages to combine an encylopedic store of inside knowledge with the obstinate detachment of a visitor from Mars, not ot mention a brilliant style and incisive wit' San Francisco Chronicle

Tom Wolfe (b. 1931) is an American journalist and author. He worked for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune, amongst others. There, he experimented with a new genre which he called New Journalism, in which journalists experiment with the use of literary devices in their news reporting. His first work of fiction, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987.

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ISBN 13	9780330493727
ISBN 10	0330493728
Title	Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers plus The New Journalism
Author	Tom Wolfe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2002-10-11
Number of pages	256
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