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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
A work of Non-fiction by Tom Wolfe
Subgenres:
- New Journalism,
- Social Criticism,
- 1970s America
This book is for you if you're into...
- Satirical deep dives into class, status, and social performance
- High-society events colliding with radical politics
- Exposés of 1970s anti-poverty programs and their dysfunction
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and delicious dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
The phrase "radical chic" was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue.
That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment.
Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt.
Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time.
Wolfe uncovers how much of the program's money failed to reach its intended recipients.
Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.
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