Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.
In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein''s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongr...
In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.
In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein''s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongr...
