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Innevänstern : Det ena ironiska reportaget (1970)

av Tom Wolfe

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In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world. In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene and its astonishing repercussions with high fidelity. And in "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," Wolfe travels to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. This time the meeting deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Francisco's militant minorities in response to a highly bureaucratized poverty program. With his fourth book, which brought the phrase "radical chic" into the cultural lexicon, Wolfe has never been more unflinching with his patented social criticism.… (mer)
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Radical Chic: "The alleged adoption and promotion of radical political causes by celebrities, socialites, and high society. People who insincerely identify themselves as radicals while conducting upper-class lifestyles and committing themselves, in reality, to much more reactionary opinions."

Mau-mau: "To intimidate (someone, such as an official) by hostile confrontation or threats."

Flak catcher: "A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer. flack, flack catcher, flak. spokesperson, representative, interpreter, voice - an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose."

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Satirical intellectual Tom Wolfe wrote two connected biting essays, (or rather, a psycho-delicious orgy of words), in 1970 that rips apart the class divide and gives an inside observer's look at the workings and inspirations of The Black Panthers who were righteously focused on creating a revolution to cure poverty, end rascism, create equality, and feed their children.

The Radical Chic narrative opens in 1969 when Conductor Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, (STEIN!, not STEEN!), throw a party... (errr... a MEETNG) in their posh upper East side apartment to raise funds for the Black Panther Defense Fund. The Who's Who of the Radical Chic are there, and of course, a handful of reporters.

This brilliant political and society commentary sizzles it's way through the decades and manages to gain even more relevance as it goes. Wolfe has a wickedly good time namedropping with ease - from Otto Preminger to Panther Don Cox to Barbara Walters - like a hippie tossing flower petals into the wind; his tearingly accurate descriptions of people and policy are no holds barred and will thrill you to you toes.

The Mau-Mauing section dissects a visit to a legislators office by community organizers seeking aid and social-welfare reform. Does this sound like a dry read? It's not.

If you're picky about what you read, here is your book. ( )
  Sasha_Lauren | Aug 15, 2023 |
Radical Chic: Mostly skewering the NYC elite. Secondarily showing off how smart he is. The primary stuff is dated and kind of nasty anyway. The secondary stuff has a few good insights, but the whole thing goes on for too long.

Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers: It is a great title. In fact, the title is so great that the article is superfluous—it doesn't add anything. Wolfe didn't know anybody in San Francisco, so there isn't any backstabbing here. Just really repetitive quoting of black jive talk for fifty pages. There is an intro and an outro, but whatever. ( )
  wunder | Feb 3, 2022 |
Radical Chic - seminal book on rich liberals
Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers - radical blacks shaking down bureaucrats in NYC ‘60’s
  JoshSapan | May 29, 2019 |
critique of race relations (Black Panthers, Bernstein), excellent picture, sickening profanity, played section to L
  keithhamblen | Jul 19, 2018 |
Wolfe exposes the underbelly of race relations in a New York Cit filled with satire and biting humor. Many times Wolfe just stands back and lets the silly people hang themselves. ( )
  dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |
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At 2 or 3 or 4 a.m., somewhere along in there, on August 25, 1966, his forty-eighth birthday, in fact, Leonard Bernstein woke up in the dark in a state of wild alarm.
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In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world. In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene and its astonishing repercussions with high fidelity. And in "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," Wolfe travels to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. This time the meeting deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Francisco's militant minorities in response to a highly bureaucratized poverty program. With his fourth book, which brought the phrase "radical chic" into the cultural lexicon, Wolfe has never been more unflinching with his patented social criticism.

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