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The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications including the best from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Radical Chic From Bauhaus to Our House The Right Stuff and the complete text of... Read Full Overview

Before he became a best-selling novelist (The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Wolfe was an essayist and keen observer of 1960s and 1970s culture for Esquire and Rolling Stone. (This is the man who coined the phrase "Me Decade", after all.) This ear-candy... Read Full Overview

"The Purple Decades" brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of "Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers," his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.