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After Tom Wolfe defined the 60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the 80s in The Right Stuff , nobody thought he could ever top himself again. In 1987, when The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an aging enfant terrible. He wasnt aging; he was growing up. After Tom Wolfe defined the 60s in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and the cultural U-turn at the turn of the 80s in The Right... Read More