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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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In these twodevastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles,"black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.

In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfefocuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correctat Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of theBlack Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene and its astonishingrepercussions with high fidelity.

And in "Mau-Mauingthe Flak Catchers," Wolfe travels to SanFrancisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and theliberal white establishment. This timethe meeting deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practicedby San Francisco's militant minorities in response to a highly bureaucratizedpoverty program.

With his fourthbook, which brought the phrase "radical chic" into the cultural lexicon, Wolfehas never been more unflinching with his patented social criticism.


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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781481546249
  • File size: 118237 KB
  • Release date: August 3, 2012
  • Duration: 04:06:19

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  • ISBN: 9781481546249
  • File size: 118253 KB
  • Release date: August 3, 2012
  • Duration: 04:09:19
  • Number of parts: 5

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Essays Nonfiction

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English

In these twodevastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles,"black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.

In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfefocuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correctat Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of theBlack Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene and its astonishingrepercussions with high fidelity.

And in "Mau-Mauingthe Flak Catchers," Wolfe travels to SanFrancisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and theliberal white establishment. This timethe meeting deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practicedby San Francisco's militant minorities in response to a highly bureaucratizedpoverty program.

With his fourthbook, which brought the phrase "radical chic" into the cultural lexicon, Wolfehas never been more unflinching with his patented social criticism.


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