| Description |
xv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Contents |
Bob and Spike -- The last American hero -- The voices of Village Square -- Purveyor of the public life -- A Sunday kind of love -- The girl of the year -- The woman who has everything -- The pump house gang -- The Mid-Adlantic man -- On the bus (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) -- These radical chic evenings (From Radical Chic) -- Mau-mauing the flak catchers -- The truest sport: jousting with Sam and Charlie -- The Me Decade and the third Great Awakening -- The intelligent coed's guide to America -- Mauve gloves and madmen, clutter and vine -- Vignettes -- The Apache dance (from The Painted Word) -- The white gods (from From Bauhaus to Our House) -- The angels (from The Right Stuff) -- Yeager (from The Right Stuff). |
| Subject |
American essays.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1970-
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| Indexed Term |
11030 fiction in English p1030 American writers 1945- 60030 texts |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Wolfe, Tom. Purple decades. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ©1982 (OCoLC)624578360 |
| ISBN |
0374239274 |
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9780374239275 |
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0374278393 |
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