Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

by Tom Wolfe

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987-11-01. Very Good. First Edition. Very good DJ. Stated First printing. Clean covers with sharp corners, clean and tight pages, square: a very crisp, sweet copy. Lovely copy. DJ has original price.

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Wolfe's two famous essays about race in America date from the late 1960s. In "Radical Chic" he takes his scalpel to a notorious party given by Leonard Bernstein in honor of the Black Panthers--an event which Wolfe immortalized as the ultimate in white condescension. "Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers" is about a confrontation between young black and Hispanic inner-city residents and the uptight Californians representing a bureaucratic "poverty program."