Tom Wolfe Books

A stirring collection of never-before-seen photographs of the Kennedy family presented in this seminal work by JFK's personal photographer, Jacques Lowe.

The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe.

Exploring the evolution of Pop culture from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, this comprehensive survey examines its impact on art, film, photography, and architecture, highlighting the interplay between mass production and mass media. Unlike other works that focus solely on Pop art, it offers a holistic view of the movement's influence across America, Britain, and Europe, showcasing its diverse manifestations and cultural significance during this transformative era.

With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

Gathers essays written during the sixties by such people as Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, Eldridge Cleaver, and others about the changes in art, politics, and the media during that decade

Celebrating the candle as a home decorating item, the authors present more than a hundred well-illustrated ideas and settings designed to help readers choose and place candles for maximum effect.

In the 1960s and the 1970s Tom Wolfe rose to fame as a chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history. It began at a hot-rod custom-car show where he marvelled at the little nest of pink angora angel's-hair used for the purpose of glamorous display. It grew - with his fascination for the Las Vegas-style neon-sculpture boom and its electro-pastel surge through the suburbs - into the kandy-kolored tangerine - flake streamline baby and the new journalism was born.

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.

MILDRED PIERCE is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her.

The author derails the great American myth of modern art in a scathing, witty, uncompromising critique of American art from the 1950s through the 1970s. Reprint.

Ten years ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era - and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a coast-to-coast portrait of America on the cusp of the millennium. Bold, caustic and hilarious, The Stoics' Game spares no one as Wolfe dissects the insatiable greed, vanity and hunger for bearings that characterise today's USA. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boom-town full of fresh wealth, avid speculators and worldly-wise politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a fabled college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned-conglomerate king whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28, 0000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife - and a half-empty tower downtown with a staggering load of debt.

Annie Leibovitz's first book. All celebrity portraits: The Stones, Townsend, Michael Douglas, Patti Smith, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, etc. 142 pages; color and b&w photographic plates through out; 9.25 x 12.25 inches.

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched out on the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all the while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day.

Exploring the early 1960s American scene, this book highlights status-seeking trends from New York to Los Angeles. It captures the vibrant energy of dances, bouffant hairstyles, stock-car racing, and rock concerts, celebrating the artistic dedication behind California teens' flamboyant 'kustomized kars.'

'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech.

Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.

"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".

Looking for new forms of status and power, the author travels from La Jolla to London in search of the 1960s subculture's wildest heroes. Reprint.

This biographer of Adolf Hitler's notorious foreign minister is also an account of the social and political workings of Nazi Germany. The book combines narrative history with intimate familiarity with the people, events and social currents that animated Hitler's regime.

Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.

Wolfe focuses on the changing mores and social landscape of the 1980s, with drawings from two decades as a graphic artist. Reprint.

Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition- Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, N

Tom Wolfe, the internationally acclaimed author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, returns to the origins of his success with his first collection of essays and short fictin for twenty years.

A colorful cast of Miami's residents and visitors navigate their daily lives, both legal and illegal, in a panoramic story of contemporary America. Officer Nestor Camacho patrols Biscayne Bay, immersing himself in a city where diverse cultures intersect at the ballot box. This melting pot is filled with complex characters, including the Cuban mayor, a black police chief, a young muckraking journalist, and his Yale-educated editor at the Miami Herald. There's also an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his enchanting Latina nurse, along with a billionaire patient grappling with porn addiction. A Haitian professor, who aspires for his daughter Ghislaine to "pass" for white, adds to the mix, as does her Creole-speaking little brother. The narrative also features crack dealers in the neighborhoods and clueless art collectors at the Miami Art Basel Fair, spending millions on de-skilled art. Tensions rise as black drug dealers clash with Cuban cops, while spectators at the Columbus Day Regatta seek out post-race festivities. Amidst this vibrant chaos, ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo and a group of shady Russians contribute to the city's eclectic tapestry.

Looks at the authors' collections of buttons, describing their history and value as art.

Schlitzohrige Porträts, Mediensatiren, geschliffen scharfe Polemiken - Tom Wolfe, Dandy, Romancier und meisterhafter Stilist, zieht hier alle Register seines Könnens. Brillant recherchierte Reportagen und detailgenaue Analysen zu Paarungsverhalten, Quotenwahn, Eitelkeit im Literaturbetrieb u. a. „Die spitzeste Feder, die Amerika zu bieten hat.“ Die Weltwoche „Ein Feuerwerk von Polemik, Satire und Heldengesängen aus den Vereinigten Staaten von heute. meisterhaft.“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung „Kaum ein anderer hat ein so feines Gespür für soziale Abstufungen, Statussymbole, gesellschaftliche Trends und die Lächerlichkeit der Selbstdarsteller.“ Frankfurter Rundschau

Ein modernes Märchen von Tom Wolfe.Der Name Silicon Valley steht für Taschenrechner, Videospiele, Heimcomputer, Lasertechnik, Mikroprozessoren und viele andere elektronische Neuheiten. In diesem Tal nördlich von San Francisco sind Menschen mit sensationellen Ideen weltberühmt geworden. Auch Robert Noyce gehörte zu ihnen. In der amerikanischen Provinz als Kind eines Pfarrers geboren, studierte er Physik. Er kam als Angestellter in das Silicon Valley, gründete dort sehr bald seine eigene Firma und war mit 31 Jahren Millionär.Tom Wolfe erzählt auf unnachahmliche Weise die unglaubliche Geschichte über den innovationsbesessenen Erfinder, der die Welt veränderte.

From mere trainee, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. This is a tale of greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

Первая книга классика американской литературы Тома Вулфа, своего рода "зернышко", из которого впоследствии выросли такие шедевры документалистики, как "Электропрохладительный кислотный тест", "Новая журналистика" и "Битва за космос". Название всему сборнику дал одноименный очерк, посвященный показу последних моделей автомашин, модернизированных и оформленных калифорнийскими подростками. Автомобиль, в отличие от, например, мотоцикла или усилителя, "символизирующих контркультуру", рассматривается Вулфом как "символ традиционного американского сознания".

À Fort Bragg, en Caroline du Nord, grande base d'entraînement militaire, un jeune soldat homosexuel a été battu à mort dans les toilettes d'un bar topless et les trois rangers coupables de l'agression sont restés impunis. Jusqu'à ce qu'entre en jeu l'obstiné Irv Durtscher, producteur d'une émission de télévision à succès. Son embuscade va mobiliser caméras cachées, micros espions et strip-teaseuse thaïlandaise sur les lieux du crime... Dans ce court roman à la fois truculent et ciselé au vitriol, c'est tout l'univers de notre " société du spectacle " qui se trouve férocement démonté et mis en pièces par Tom Wolfe.

En la actualidad, se observa la arquitectura de los últimos cincuenta años con una nueva perspectiva. Tom Wolfe, maestro del «nuevo periodismo» y autor de La hoguera de las vanidades, ofrece una revisión irreverente del tema, comenzando desde el fin de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la aspiración del Bauhaus, liderado por Walter Gropius con su lema de «empezar de cero». Esta idea de reinvención se complementa con la necesidad de rechazar la arquitectura «burguesa», buscando erradicar lo antiguo y decadente para construir un mundo abstracto que celebre la unión del Arte y la Tecnología. Tras ser expulsados de Alemania por el nazismo, estos arquitectos encuentran refugio en Estados Unidos, donde la clase dirigente les entrega el poder de redefinir el paisaje arquitectónico. En este contexto, surge la paradoja de que una élite rica y poderosa financie una arquitectura fría, impersonal y abstracta, que prohíbe el lujo y el optimismo, como si fueran sinónimos de mal gusto. Wolfe se pregunta: «¿Existe otro lugar donde tanta gente rica y poderosa haya soportado tanta arquitectura que detesta?». Este análisis arquitectónico es comparable a su brillante exploración de la pintura moderna en La palabra pintada, mostrando cómo las modas intelectuales y sociales han moldeado la estética contemporánea, llevando a los creadores a renunciar a la individualidad en favor de la conformidad.

Lorsque Charlotte, sage jeune fille d'origine modeste, débarque de sa Caroline du Nord natale à Dupont University, l'Olympe de la connaissance, elle est certes brillante et déjà très jolie mais aussi un peu gourde... Le tourbillon de sa 1ère année (alcool, débauche, sexe...) va la révéler à elle-même, mais pas comme elle s'y serait attendue.