Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Life of Tom Wolfe -- 2. Tom Wolfe's Place in Contemporary Literature -- 3. Short Stories: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and The Pump House Gang (1968) -- 4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) -- 5. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers (1970) -- 6. The Right Stuff (1979) -- 7. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) -- 8. A Man in Full (1998)