- Social life and customs, Geschlechterbeziehung, Sozialverhalten, Kulturleben
"Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers...to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves, thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience...to the reasons why, at the dawn of a new millenium, no one is celebrating the second American Century.".
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- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Tom Wolfe, Ron Rifkin
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 299
- Publisher
- Audioworks, Picador, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780312420239
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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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