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Informationen zum Autor Tom Wolfe (1930¿2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of contemporary classics like The Right Stuff and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers , as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities , A Man in Full , and I Am Charlotte Simmons . As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post , the New York Herald Tribune , Esquire , and New York Magazine , and is credited with coining the term, ¿The Me Decade.¿ Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City. Klappentext An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism."This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek

Product details

• Authors: Tom Wolfe
• Publisher: Picador Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780312429126
• ISBN: 978-0-312-42912-6
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Picador
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Politik und Staat, Sechziger Jahre, USA / Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Recht, Englische Bücher / Politik- u. Sozialwissenschaft, USA / Gesellschaft, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays