Books
The Pump House Gang
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.Summary from Publisher: Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in… More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.Summary from Publisher: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe’s fourth book of social commentary, consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in… More
The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus
– Harper's Magazine, October 1979.From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
Tom Wolfe: Real Estate, Wealth, Politicians, Debt (1998)
– BookTV, lecture at Miami-Dade Community College, YouTube, 1998.God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
– Harper's Magazine, June 2000.Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pursuit of Happiness, American Style by Carol McNamara
– Carol McNamara, Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2005.The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
The Rich Have Feelings, Too
– Vanity Fair, September 2009.Excerpt: Up until the tarantulas arrived late last year waving their billions in “bailout” money before our faces, there were ten of us, including the two Harvard algorithm swamis, who… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Eunuchs of the Universe
– Daily Beast, January 4, 2013.Excerpt: Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Essays
The Pump House Gang
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.Summary from Publisher: Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in… More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.Summary from Publisher: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe’s fourth book of social commentary, consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in… More
The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus
– Harper's Magazine, October 1979.From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
Tom Wolfe: Real Estate, Wealth, Politicians, Debt (1998)
– BookTV, lecture at Miami-Dade Community College, YouTube, 1998.God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
– Harper's Magazine, June 2000.Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pursuit of Happiness, American Style by Carol McNamara
– Carol McNamara, Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2005.The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
The Rich Have Feelings, Too
– Vanity Fair, September 2009.Excerpt: Up until the tarantulas arrived late last year waving their billions in “bailout” money before our faces, there were ten of us, including the two Harvard algorithm swamis, who… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Eunuchs of the Universe
– Daily Beast, January 4, 2013.Excerpt: Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Commentary
The Pump House Gang
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.Summary from Publisher: Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in… More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.Summary from Publisher: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe’s fourth book of social commentary, consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in… More
The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus
– Harper's Magazine, October 1979.From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
Tom Wolfe: Real Estate, Wealth, Politicians, Debt (1998)
– BookTV, lecture at Miami-Dade Community College, YouTube, 1998.God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
– Harper's Magazine, June 2000.Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pursuit of Happiness, American Style by Carol McNamara
– Carol McNamara, Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2005.The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
The Rich Have Feelings, Too
– Vanity Fair, September 2009.Excerpt: Up until the tarantulas arrived late last year waving their billions in “bailout” money before our faces, there were ten of us, including the two Harvard algorithm swamis, who… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Eunuchs of the Universe
– Daily Beast, January 4, 2013.Excerpt: Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Multimedia
The Pump House Gang
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.Summary from Publisher: Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in… More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.Summary from Publisher: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe’s fourth book of social commentary, consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in… More
The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus
– Harper's Magazine, October 1979.From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
Tom Wolfe: Real Estate, Wealth, Politicians, Debt (1998)
– BookTV, lecture at Miami-Dade Community College, YouTube, 1998.God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
– Harper's Magazine, June 2000.Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pursuit of Happiness, American Style by Carol McNamara
– Carol McNamara, Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2005.The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
The Rich Have Feelings, Too
– Vanity Fair, September 2009.Excerpt: Up until the tarantulas arrived late last year waving their billions in “bailout” money before our faces, there were ten of us, including the two Harvard algorithm swamis, who… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Eunuchs of the Universe
– Daily Beast, January 4, 2013.Excerpt: Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Teaching
The Pump House Gang
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.Summary from Publisher: Running throughout The Pump House Gang is the central theme of most of Tom Wolfe’s writing: Status. Much of the book deals with a surprising phenomenon in… More
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.Summary from Publisher: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe’s fourth book of social commentary, consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in… More
The Secret Heart of the New York Culturatus
– Harper's Magazine, October 1979.From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
Tom Wolfe: Real Estate, Wealth, Politicians, Debt (1998)
– BookTV, lecture at Miami-Dade Community College, YouTube, 1998.God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
– Harper's Magazine, June 2000.Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pursuit of Happiness, American Style by Carol McNamara
– Carol McNamara, Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2005.The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
The Rich Have Feelings, Too
– Vanity Fair, September 2009.Excerpt: Up until the tarantulas arrived late last year waving their billions in “bailout” money before our faces, there were ten of us, including the two Harvard algorithm swamis, who… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Eunuchs of the Universe
– Daily Beast, January 4, 2013.Excerpt: Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More