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Cargando... Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers/The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test/The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (edición 1999)por Tom Wolfe (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Tom Wolfe's author's note to this book reads, "I have tried not only to tell what the Pranksters did but to recreate the mental atmosphere or subjective reality of it." With its stream-of-consciousness prose Wolfe, to my mind, succeeded in this endeavor. While at times fairly straightforward and journalistic, much of the narration is impressionistic. You follow the lyrical writing, not logically, but emotionally. While I have read that Wolfe himself did not take LSD, you would not necessarily draw that conclusion from the book which reads like one extended acid test. The writing itself is colorful and brilliant. This book was seminal in what became known as gonzo journalism, "a style of reporting that places the reporter at the center of the story in a highly personal and participatory way." The book succeeds as a beautifully detailed picture of the 1960s hipster youthful zeitgeist up against the older generation of squares, personified here by hapless police enforcing a rigid out-of-touch legal system. It fills in all the movies, TV shows, and timeless songs you know and recognize from that era. Reading the book you feel like you are tripping yourself. You can hear the soundtrack of the time and almost see the psychedelic oil colors bubbling on the pages. But, with the exception of its buckskin shirt-wearing protagonist, Ken Kesey, and perhaps the sledgehammer-wielding Prankster Neal Cassady, most of the rest of the Pranksters remain indistinguishable. And while there is a plot of sorts, I put the book down for months and was able to pick it up again with no need to review anything. So it did not really succeed, for me, as a compelling story or page-turner. But if you are of a certain age, and have any interest in this unique, druggy, and rebellious period of American history, it is an essential guide. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Electric kool-aid acid test: Describes the escapades of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a drug-saturated group of hippies who get in and out of trouble with the law.
One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.
This 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 the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all 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.
"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the psychedelic 1960s.
The kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby: In his first book - a collection that launched its author as America's foremost entertainer with something to say-Tom Wolfe took a sharp-eyed look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the exotic forms of status-seeking that flourished across the country from New York to Los Angeles.
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers: 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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