![]() An illiterate and foul-mouthed horde now swarms over the land of the founding father, jumping up on the TV screen to frighten the children of their Wasp descendents, stretching the machinery of public administration to breaking point, and making the Constitution look like a simple-minded joke.Ī specialist in what his American publishers call 'detailed on-scene reporting,' Wolfe relishes the play of racial stereotypes. ![]() Wolfe starts by showing his fellow New Yorkers heaped up as a monstrous and degenerate mob baying for blood, rattling at the bars and generally dragging the noble city down into corruption and filth. The new bonfire is built on familiar ground. ![]() Before that Leonard Bernstein - who had hired white waiters to serve at his fundraising party for the Black Panthers - was famously roasted on the pyre of 'radical chic.' All this, we now see, was part of a 15-year warm-up act preparation for the ultimate conflagration in which the whole city of New York would burn for 650 exuberant if at times rather gaseous pages. The architecture of the modern movement went up in an easy puff of smoke a few years ago. T om Wolfe has set a few fires in his time. ![]()
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