"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade".
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"When are the 1970's going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade".
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Illustrated by the author. , corners and edges lightly rubbed, covers marked slightly, inside of the textblock clean, slight foxing around the edge of the textblock, book in very good condition in , dustwrapper rubbed along the top and bottom with a few small tears, 1 mark on... Hardback. 1-243 pages, contains author's signature in black pen on the half title page, also includes black and white illustrations., 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. 1st printing. Prior owner's name and date inked on front flyleaf, otherwise a clean, square copy. Full cloth binding. 243pp. Illustrations by the author. Unclipped jacket is shelf rubbed and in a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
Before Wolfe started writing those dreadful novels to fund his retirement, he was one of the founders of New Journalism and the most insightful commentator on the American scene in the Sixties and Seventies. This collection includes the essays in which he coined the terms "the Me Generation" and "the RIght Stuff" (the latter originaly referred to fighter pilots flying off aircraft carriers into Vietnam). Every college frshman should read "The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America", which puts for the thesis that AMerican academics have never been opressed, so they've had to invent opression to feel relevant. Favorite line: "Fascism is always descending on America, but it only lands in Europe.
