Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
1970
Tom Wolfe's sharp essays critique social styles, political stances, and racial tensions in a status-obsessed world.
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Tom Wolfe's sharp essays critique social styles, political stances, and racial tensions in a status-obsessed world.
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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 incongruous scene and its astonishing repercussions with high fidelity. And in Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Wolf...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Minor references to social conflict; no graphic violence.
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Mild language used occasionally in dialogue or context.
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No substance use depicted.
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on political stances, social critique, and racial tensions.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Brief mentions of systemic inequality and social suffering.
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