The pump house gang / Tom Wolfe

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A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way into the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfe, Tom (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2022.
Edition:First Picador edition.
Subjects:
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
England > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Social status.
Popular culture > History.
Intellectual life > History.
Nineteen sixties.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1945-1970.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Statut social.
Culture populaire > Histoire.
Années soixante (Vingtième siècle)
social status.
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Nineteen sixties
Popular culture
Social status
England
United States
1900-1999
Essays
History
Essays.
Genre:
Essays
History
Essays.
Physical Description:xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The pump house gang
  • The mid-Atlantic man
  • King of the status dropouts
  • The put-together girl
  • The noonday underground
  • The mild ones
  • The hair boys
  • What if he is right?
  • Bob and Spike
  • Tom Wolfe's new book of etiquette
  • The life & hard times of a teenage London society girl
  • The private game
  • The automated hotel
  • The shockkkkkk of recognition
  • O rotten Gotham.sliding down into the behavioral sink.