Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Wolfe
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: 1968-1970
- Setting: New York and San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Leonard Bernstein, Don Cox, Charlotte Curtis, Joseph Alioto, Jomo Yarumba
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: 1960’s, Social reform, Class conflict, Blacks, Race, Protests or demonstrations, Guilt, Liberalism, Popular culture, Fund raising
Form and Content
In June of 1970, at the time when the first version of “Radical Chic” was published in New York magazine, Tom Wolfe was considered by many to be America’s foremost exponent and practitioner of what had come to be called the New Journalism. Spawned by the turbulent 1960’s and more opinionated than the old-fashioned, who-what-where-when-why school of objective reportage, “participatory journalism,” as it was sometimes dubbed, was experimental in style, sardonic in tone, and intimate in point of view. In The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake...
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