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.

A smooth-sailing bike trip to the store is abruptly stopped in its tracks. A bewildering situation requires swift investigation. What a predicament! It's not all fun and games, as one determined youngster with an uncalculated plan, attempts to match wits with a four-legged culprit named Joe. Oh no, Joe! is a fast-paced and fun time, read in rhyme. A celebration of unconditional love between a boy and his dog... because kind little people grow up to be kind big people.

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.

One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.

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.

A satire on America featuring a capitalist trying to avoid ruin. The hero is Charlie Croker of Atlanta whose plantation and skyscraper face repossession by banks for non-repayment of a loan. One way out might be to request leniency in return for hushing up a rape.

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.

A review of architectural trends in the twentieth century that attacks the modernist mainstream.

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

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive

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.

As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay – with officer Nestor Camacho on board – Tom Wolfe is off and running.

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

Sherman McCoy è un giovane finanziere: guadagna un milione di dollari all'anno e vive in un appartamento di quattordici stanze a Manhattan, nel cuore della "città dei bianchi", al riparo dai pericoli e dalle volenze della metropoli multirazziale. Una sera McCoy investe con l'auto un giovane di colore nel Bronx: la polizia, i giornalisti, i politici e i difensori civici gli sono subito addosso, trasformando l'uomo di successo, il superprivilegiato, nella vittima designata di un'intera città. Attraverso la "parabola" di McCoy, Wolfe mette in scena un'infinita galleria di personaggi, esplora gli ambienti più disparati, in una grande "commedia umana" che è anche, per noi europei, una visione profetica del nostro futuro.

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.

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".

Sherman McCoy mène une vie luxueuse entre Wall Street, dont il est l'un des jeunes lions, et Park Avenue. Un soir, revenant de l'aéroport avec sa maîtresse, il rate la sortie de l'autoroute, et se perd dans le Bronx. Au moment où il croit enfin pouvoir échapper à ce quartier de tous les dangers, deux jeunes Noirs s'avancent, menaçants, vers sa Mercedes... Le couple parvient à s'enfuir, mais écrase l'un des deux hommes. Pour Sherman McCoy, c'est le début de la chute. Sa vie affective et professionnelle est pulvérisée, et l'univers dont il se croyait le maître flambe sur le bûcher de toutes les vanités. Graduellement, inexorablement, l'étau se resserre, sans que l'on sache, jusqu'aux toutes dernières pages, comment le cauchemar se terminera.

Radical chic è lo spassoso e tagliente articolo in cui Tom Wolfe descrive il curioso fenomeno sociale, sorto alla fine degli anni Sessanta negli Stati Uniti, del corteggiamento da parte dell’élite newyorkese di ogni possibile rivoluzionario radicale, dagli antimilitaristi agli hippy psichedelici. L’occasione che ispirò a Wolfe la celebre definizione «radical chic» fu il ricevimento organizzato a Manhattan il 14 gennaio 1970 da Felicia Bernstein, moglie del compositore e direttore d’orchestra Leonard, per sostenere la causa del gruppo rivoluzionario marxista-leninista delle Pantere Nere. La serata si svolse nell’attico di tredici stanze che i Bernstein possedevano a Park Avenue, e Wolfe ne scrisse un ampio e caustico resoconto intitolato These Radical Chic Evenings, pubblicato nel mese di giugno sul «New York Magazine». Confluito in un secondo momento nel libro Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, il testo è una satira irresistibile della buona coscienza progressista, che oggi come allora non resiste alla tentazione di unire benessere materiale e retorica rivoluzionaria.

Hooking Up: Das sind die Mechanismen unseres Balzverhaltens zwischen Kennenlernen und ehelichen Alltag, aber dieser Ausdruck steht auch im übertragenen Sinne für das menschliche Miteinander und die gewaltigen Umwälzungen, denen es im digitalen Zeitalter unterworfen ist. Ein Thema, das für Tom Wolfe als Journalisten immer schon im Vordergrund stand und auch das Thema dieser Sammlung von Essays ist

Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning in today's American colleges. Set at fictional Dupont University, the story follows beautiful and brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. Initially enchanted by the university's roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns, Charlotte soon discovers that for the elite coeds, sex, coolness, and parties take precedence over academics. As she navigates the world of Dupont's privileged elite, Charlotte encounters her roommate Beverly, a Groton-educated girl obsessed with lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, a white basketball player facing competition from a talented black freshman; Hoyt Thorpe, a fraternity leader with a sense of entitlement; and Adam Geller, a member of the university's independent newspaper who believes in intellectual integrity amidst a hedonistic campus culture. Seduced by the allure of acceptance, Charlotte grapples with betraying her values and upbringing before realizing the strength of her individuality and the charm of her innocence. With his signature satirical wit and keen observational detail, Wolfe captures the essence of the early-21st-century college experience.

La Dupont University, con le sue architetture gotiche e il suo parco curato, è l'Olimpo della cultura universitaria americana, il luogo che raccoglie la migliore gioventù statunitense. O almeno così appare agli occhi di Charlotte Simmons, bella e intelligente matricola giunta con una borsa di studio dalle montagne del North Carolina. E qui, con sua grande sorpresa, viene subito adottata dai principali esponenti dell'élite studentesca. Entrare nelle loro grazie è per la ragazza straordinario, qualcosa che può farle perdere la testa e i valori con cui è cresciuta. Prima di arrivare a capire la grandezza del suo essere diversa.

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.

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.