Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white...
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The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429961189 (142996118X)
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Race
There was a time when I loved reading Wolfe, when I thought him incisive and amusing. In retrospect, particularly after reading the execrable I am Charlotte Simmons I think he's probably just a hideous snob and always has been.
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