Radical Chic and MauMauing the Flak ..., Tom Wolfe
Radical Chic and MauMauing the Flak ..., Tom Wolfe
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Author: Tom Wolfe

Narrator: Harold N. Cropp

Unabridged: 4 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014

Synopsis

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 Bernsteins 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, Wolfe travels to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. This time the meeting deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Franciscos militant minorities in response to a highly bureaucratized poverty program. With his fourth book, which brought the phrase radical chic into the cultural lexicon, Wolfe has never been more unflinching with his patented social criticism.

About Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe was the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his BA at Washington and Lee University and a PhD in American studies at Yale.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on April 03, 2016

Tom Wolfe entered the political fray with the two essays in his 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. “Radical Chic” describes a fundraiser that Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia held at their Park Avenue apartment for the Black Panther Party. Wolfe wasn’t actually invited to t......more

Goodreads review by Peter on May 03, 2007

Still valid. Still extremely valid. Still so valid that you can see parallels of everything described in the book in regular life. I'm not a new your socialite, but the idea of radical chic applies to most every cause today. I do see group organizers on a regular basis, and they mau-mau as much as e......more

Goodreads review by Eric on January 24, 2009

Tom Wolfe, full of snark. Wolfe's best work The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, the early Esquire stories centers on character who he clearly admires. He's often called a great observer, but in truth, he's always been a better king-maker. More and more, Wolfe's tendency is to attack wh......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on March 04, 2019

Picked this up yesterday for a quarter. It is an interesting document--one of many which signified a new journalism, a creative nonfiction. My only reason for reading this was the focus on Leonard Bernstein, or at least on his apartment. As Lenorard's daughter noted, he had a weaponized ego-- and su......more

Goodreads review by Josh on June 14, 2007

An absolute character assasination of the would be hip, open minded, liberal left wing. Reinforces "the more things change......" This is as true of an indictment today as it was 37 years ago......more

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