The purple decades, a reader, Tom Wolfe ; selected by Tom Wolfe
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The purple decades, a reader, Tom Wolfe ; selected by Tom Wolfe
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The purple decades
Oclc number
8587815
Responsibility statement
Tom Wolfe ; selected by Tom Wolfe
Sub title
a reader
Summary
This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s
Table Of Contents
Bob & Spike -- The last American hero -- The voices of Village Square -- Purveyor of the public life -- A Sunday kind of love -- The girl of the year -- The woman who has everything -- The pump house gang -- The Mid-Adlantic man -- On the bus (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) -- These radical chic evenings (From Radical Chic) -- Mau-mauing the flak catchers -- The truest sport: jousting with Sam and Charlie -- The Me Decade and the third Great Awakening -- The intelligent coed's guide to America -- Mauve gloves & madmen, clutter & vine -- Vignettes -- The Apache dance (from The Painted Word) -- The white gods (from From Bauhaus to Our House) -- The angels (from The Right Stuff) -- Yeager (from The Right Stuff)
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