The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Av Tom Wolfe

<p><b>Tom Wolfe''s debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it </b><b>careened</b><b> through the 1960s </b><br><br>In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, <i>The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby</i>, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia ¿ as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? ¿ Wolfe¿s flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction.<br><br><b>''Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>