{"product_id":"radical-chic-and-mau-mauing-the-flak-catchers-paperback","title":"Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow with an original introduction by David Brooks, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a funny and irreverent study of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eclass and status by the master of New Journalism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Wolfe's two-act dissection of 1970s race relations in America is incisive and thought-provoking, an indispensable study in how white pieties have often worked against the interests of Black communities in the country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWolfe first takes readers back to his original hotbed of 1970s \"radical chic\" the party for the Black Panthers that Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia, hosted at their Park Avenue penthouse. Wolfe's unerring eye for the uncanny feasts on an improbable scene that would morph into today's cocktail activism--well-heeled elites signifying their sympathy with causes related to Black emancipation through hobnobbing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,\" meanwhile, unfolds on the other side of the country, in San Francisco's Office of Economic Opportunity, where Wolfe details with Kafkaesque absurdity the dysfunction, chaos, and corruption that waylays this outgrowth of the War on Poverty so that it inevitably ends up failing the underserved communities it's supposed to help.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as \u003ci\u003eThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadical Chic \u0026amp; Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Man in Full\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Am Charlotte Simmons\u003c\/i\u003e. As a reporter, he wrote articles for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and is credited with coining the term \"the Me Decade.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong his many honors, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for\u003ci\u003e The New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand a contributor to The \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a commentator on \"The PBS Newshour\" and founder and Chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis forthcoming book \"How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen\" will be published in October. His previous three books were \"The Second Mountain,\" \"The Road to Character,\" and \"The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,\" all #1 New York Times bestsellers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Brooks has taught at Yale and Duke and now teaches at the University of Chicago. He has received over 30 honorary degrees from American universities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences. 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