{"product_id":"radical-chic-and-mau-mauing-the-flak-catchers-9781250321886","title":"Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReissued with an original introduction by David Brooks, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and \"delicious\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Wolfe's two-act dissection of 1970s race relations in America is incisive and thought-provoking, an indispensable study in how elite white pieties have often worked against the welfare of Black communities in the country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWolfe first takes readers back to his original scene of 1970s \"radical chic\" the party for the Black Panthers that Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia, hosted at their Park Avenue penthouse. Wolfe's unerring eye for the uncanny feasts on an improbable scene that would morph into today's cocktail activism--well-heeled elites signifying their sympathy with causes related to Black emancipation through social hobnobbing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMau-Mauing the Flak Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, meanwhile, unfolds on the other side of the country, in San Francisco's Office of Economic Opportunity, where Wolfe details with Kafkaesque absurdity the dysfunction, chaos, and corruption that waylays this outgrowth of the War on Poverty so that it inevitably ends up failing the underserved communities it's supposed to help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250321886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Tom Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391892779189,"sku":"9781250321886","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be38e419-13ee-4a09-bc81-0d1c5c4982f9.jpg?v=1719949131","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/radical-chic-and-mau-mauing-the-flak-catchers-9781250321886","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}