Background
Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas Kennerly and Helen (Hughes) Wolfe.
("A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs y...)
"A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs you by the lapels and won't let you go."-The New York Times Book Review "The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicles the collapse of a Wall Street bond trader, and examines a world in which fortunes are made and lost at the blink of a computer screen. . . . Wolfe's subject couldn't be more topical: New Yorkers' relentless pursuit and flaunting of wealth, and the fury it evokes in the have-nots."-USA Today
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(The Pump House Gang: The definative, super-charged chroni...)
The Pump House Gang: The definative, super-charged chronicle of today's life styles by America's foremost pop journalist
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(A single volume contains two New York Times best-sellers ...)
A single volume contains two New York Times best-sellers by a popular contemporary author, The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities, both of which have been made into major motion pictures.
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( The Purple Decades brings together the author's own sel...)
The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
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(If generals prepare for the last war, the politicians run...)
If generals prepare for the last war, the politicians run on yesterday's issues. Never was this truer than in the 1970s. Our elected elite couldn't get a handle on the times. But Tom Wolfe could. In fact he gave the era its name -- "The Me Decade." And like an artist briskly painting the passing scene, he captured it in stories and essays. This collection includes the best -- "Pornoviolence," "Funky Chic," "The Man Who Always Peaked Too Soon" plus the story for which this collection is named. "Wolfe sees it fresh and tells it true...great vivacity and intelligence." (The Observer)
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( The Purple Decades brings together the author's own sel...)
The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
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(Tom Wolfe examines the absurdities of the 70s)
Tom Wolfe examines the absurdities of the 70s
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(Hardcover book in dust jacket, 1968. Author Tom Wolfe's p...)
Hardcover book in dust jacket, 1968. Author Tom Wolfe's personal experiences interacting/interviewing people involved with the late 1960's counterculture revolution.
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( Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atla...)
Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.
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(As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durt...)
As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius. Instead, all the accolades go to the blonde bombshell anchor who won't give balding, near-sighted Irv the time of day. But suddenly Irv has a chance to break the most sensational story of his career - one that will surely catapult him into the national spotlight and into Madame Bombshell's heart. For months the wheels of justice have ground to a halt as three soldiers from Fort Bragg have categorically denied that they savagely beat and murdered a member of their company because he was gay. Now, Irv Durtscher, self-proclaimed soul of a soulless industry, is poised to expose the truth. With a fortune in surveillance equipment, he has infiltrated a bar near Fort Bragg, in the hopes that the unwitting soldiers will hang themselves on videotape. What he gets is pure dynamite. But Irv's story won't be complete until he arranges to ambush the three young toughs and show them the footage. What happens when one of New York's media elite confronts the Lords of Testosterone?...not what you think. Ambush at Fort Bragg is classic Wolfe - a blistering send-up of one man's drive for fame and glory and the outrageous lengths to which the media will go to showcase their version of the truth. Listen to a conversation with Tom Wolfe.
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(1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. A drama about ambition, racism, ...)
1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. A drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on four main characters: bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow, and black activist Reginald Bacon.
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( Classic Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (Th...)
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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(„Eine Satire voller Verve, Witz und Wut.“ Daniel Kehlmann...)
„Eine Satire voller Verve, Witz und Wut.“ Daniel Kehlmann Applaus erfüllt den Saal, als Charlotte zum Podium hochsteigt. Gerade wurde verkündet, dass sie als Erste aus ihrem 900-Seelen-Dorf ein Stipendium für die Dupont University erhält. Endlich wird das hoch begabte Mädchen in den Olymp des Wissens aufgenommen. Doch statt des ersehnten Lebens in einer Welt des Geistes findet sie sich in einem Mahlstrom aus Saufgelagen und sexuellen Ausschweifungen. ICH BIN CHARLOTTE SIMMONS ist ein brillanter Campusroman voller polemischer Spannung, Witz und Verve – und eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme des janusköpfigen Amerika, in dem die konservativen Kräfte gegen die liberalen antreten. „Charlotte, du bist dazu bestimmt, Großes zu tun“, prophezeit ihr die Lehrerin. Und das hübsche Mädchen vollbringt Großes: Sie schließt die Highschool in ihrem winzigen Nest in den Blue Ridge Mountains als Beste ab und erhält ein Stipendium für Dupont in Pennsylvania. Charlotte ist überglücklich, endlich darf sie in das Paradies der Gelehrsamkeit ziehen. An dieser bedeutendsten Universität des Landes wird sie erstmals auf Gleichgesinnte treffen, die wie sie die Welt zu durchdringen suchen. Doch kaum hat sie voller Idealismus ihr Studium begonnen, wird ihr klar, was an diesem Olymp des Wissens wirklich zählt: schicke Klamotten, sich bis zur Besinnungslosigkeit besaufen und natürlich Sex. In ihrer Naivität hätte Charlotte das nie für möglich gehalten, denn sie – ganz die Tochter ihrer religiösen Mutter – ist selbstverständlich noch Jungfrau. Doch schon bald umwerben sie drei Männer: ein verkopfter „Nerd“, der die Welt revolutionieren möchte; ein „Anabolika-Trottel“, der einzige weiße Basketballspieler im Uni-Team; und ein auf seinen Vorteil bedachter Schönling. Charlotte erwählt den Falschen – und braucht lange, um wie ein Phönix aus der Asche ihres Selbstverlusts aufzusteigen. Tom Wolfe, Amerikas Mr. Zeitgeist, legt in diesem rasanten und überaus amüsanten Campusroman den gegenwärtig in den USA tobenden Kulturkampf zwischen dem Konservatismus im Süden und dem Liberalismus an der Ost- und Westküste bloß, präzise , schonungslos und voller Allgemeingültigkeit. ICH BIN CHARLOTTE SIMMONS ist nichts weniger als eine „Great American Novel“, verfasst in einer atemlos genialischen Sprache.
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(A Novel. A witty, biting history of modern architecture t...)
A Novel. A witty, biting history of modern architecture that started 50 years ago with the Bauhaus Boys, whose international style of architecture made our office buildings into glass-and-steel boxes, our art galleries look like garages and our schools look like shopping centers.
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(As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durt...)
As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius. Instead, all the accolades go to the blonde bombshell anchor who won't give balding, near-sighted Irv the time of day. But suddenly Irv has a chance to break the most sensational story of his career--one that will surely catapult him into the national spotlight and into Madame Bombshell's heart. For months the wheels of justice have ground to a halt as three soldiers from Fort Bragg have categorically denied that they savagely beat and murdered a member of their company because he was gay. Now, Irv Durtscher, self-proclaimed soul of a soulless industry, is poised to expose the truth. With a fortune in surveillance equipment, he has infiltrated a bar near Fort Bragg, in the hopes that the unwitting soldiers will hang themselves on videotape. What he gets is pure dynamite. But Irv's story won't be complete until he arranges to ambush the three young toughs and show them the footage. What happens when one of New York's media elite confronts the Lords of Testosterone?...not what you think. Ambush at Fort Bragg is classic Wolfe--a blistering send-up of one man's drive for fame and glory and the lengths to which the media will go to showcase their version of the truth. This is Wolfe at his very best--timely, relevant, and right on the money about many aspects of 90s America: the media, the military, the South, discrimination, and homophobia. This is an unabridged AUDIO BOOK.
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( Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title fro...)
Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London.
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(Overview The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a...)
Overview The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a cast of heroes, introduced to America with the explosion of space exploration in the romantic heyday of the 20th century and encapsulated in Neal Armstong's "one giant step for mankind." Beginning with the first experiments with manned space flight in the 1940s, remembering the feats of Chuck Yeager and the breaking of the sound barrier, and focusing in on the brave pilots of the Mercury Project, Wolfe's ability to marry historical fact with dramatic intensity is nowhere more evident than in The Right Stuff.
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manager chairman of the Pacific School of Religion
Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas Kennerly and Helen (Hughes) Wolfe.
AB, Washington and Lee University, 1951. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Washington and Lee University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies, Yale University, 1957.
Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Minneapolis College Art, 1971. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), School of Visual Arts, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Virginia Commonwealth University, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Southampton College, New York, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Randolph-Macon College, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Manhattanville College, 1988.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Longwood College, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. Andrews Presbyterian College, 1990. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Richmond, 1993.
Reporter, Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, 1956-1959; reporter, Latin American correspondent, Washington Post, 1959-1962; city reporter, New York Herald Tribune, 1962-1966; magazine writer, New York World Journal Tribune, 1966-1967; contributing editor, New York magazine, 1968-1976; contributing editor, Esquire Magazine, New York City, from 1977. Writer New York Sunday Magazine, 1962-1966. Contributing artist Harper's Magazine, New York City, 1978-1981.
( The Purple Decades brings together the author's own sel...)
( The Purple Decades brings together the author's own sel...)
(Overview The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe's deft account of a...)
(A single volume contains two New York Times best-sellers ...)
( Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title fro...)
( Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atla...)
( Classic Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (Th...)
(As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durt...)
(As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durt...)
(The Pump House Gang: The definative, super-charged chroni...)
(Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and hi...)
("A big, bitter, funny, craftily plotted book that grabs y...)
(If generals prepare for the last war, the politicians run...)
(IT IS A BIG PANORAMIC STORY OF THE METROPOLIS AND THE WAY...)
(BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES; ISBN 0-374-11534-6 Hardcover Jan...)
(Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux...)
(Bonfire of the Vanities (87) by Wolfe, Tom Paperback (2001))
(Stories about the 1970's written by Tom Wolfe. "The Me De...)
(Tom Wolfe examines the absurdities of the 70s)
(Nice collection of these Tom Wolfe classics.)
(„Eine Satire voller Verve, Witz und Wut.“ Daniel Kehlmann...)
(Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Bantam Books, Inc.,...)
(Hardcover book in dust jacket, 1968. Author Tom Wolfe's p...)
(Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction)
(1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. A drama about ambition, racism, ...)
(Classic Tom Wolfe!)
(Book by Tom Wolfe)
(Hardcover.)
(A Novel. A witty, biting history of modern architecture t...)
Married Sheila Berger. Children: Alexandra, Thomas.