Tom Wolfe

Two essays scathingly comment on the new racial and ethnic games being played by America's Beautiful People. In this devastatingly funny book, Tom Wolfe shows again why he is regarded as his era's most brilliant observer of the American social scene. The book consists of two long essays, closely related in theme and substance, both dealing with political stances and social styles in the status-minded world of the 1960s. In Radical Chic, Wolfe describes...