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Radical chic and Mau-mauing the flak catchers ; The painted word

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

Radical chic and Mau-mauing the flak catchers ; The painted word

By Tom Wolfe

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Radical chic is a dissection of the need among wealthy liberals in late 1960s America to be seen to support the correct political causes, even if that meant giving champagne receptions for the feared Black Panther Party. Mau-mauing the flak catchers takes a satirical look at how, during that period of cultural upheaval, minority groups from the ghettoes refined the art of intimidating the white bureaucracy. These two essays transport the reader back to the heady days of hippie revolution and Bla...Show more

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Society and Social Sciences

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ISBN

9780330493727

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Radical chic and Mau-mauing the flak catchers ; The painted word

Format

Paperback

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