Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism
"On the night of January 4, 1970, Maestro and Mrs. Leonard Bernstein threw a bash in their thirteen-room park Avenue pad to raise money for the Black Panthers Defense Fund. New York society will probably never play Lady Bountiful in quite the same way again, because among the Beautiful People present was Tom Wolfe, pop sociologist and parajournalist supreme."--Book World
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A relentlessly funny spoof of the Jane Fonda types of this world who know what's cool and mimic it. As to why, they only concern themselves with the slogans. Wolfe coined the phrase "radical chic" and if you lived the '60s and '70s, he sure nails the NYC elitist milieu that was no more cerebral than the 80% of everyone's high school student body that tried to park their arses when the bell went off as close as they could to the cool kids' cafeteria table. Today, they're called woke.
