- Popular culture, Social status, American history, American aesthetic
"In his first book—a collection that launched its author as America's foremost entertainer with something to say—Tom Wolfe took a sharp-eyed look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the exotic forms of status-seeking that flourished across the country from New York to Los Angeles.
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Cool, warm, comic and meticulous.
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- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Tom Wolfe
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- Noonday Press], Mayflower, Mayflower Books
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781784873721
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“"What is all this hernia hernia stuff?"”
Tom Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., American Studies, 1957) universities. In December 1956, he took a job as a reporter on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. This was the beginning of a ten-year newspaper career, most of it spent as a general assignment reporter. For six months in 1960 he served as The Washington Post's Latin American correspondent and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for his coverage of Cuba. In 1962 he became a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and, in addition, one of the two staff writers (Jimmy Breslin was the other) of New York magazine, which began as
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