The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe

Macmillan, Nov 24, 2009 - Literary Collections - 368 pages

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.

"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek

In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

Contents

• Introduction: xi
• THE NEW CULTUREMAKERS: 1
• Las Vegas What? Las Vegas Cant hear you Too noisy Las Vegas: 3
• Clean Fun at Riverhead: 29
• The Fifth Beatle: 37
• The Peppermint Lounge Revisited: 51
• The First Tycoon of Teen: 57
• The KandyKolored TangerineFlake Streamline Baby: 75
• HEROES AND CELEBRITIES: 105
• The Marvelous Mouth: 107
• The Last American Hero: 121
• Loverboy of the Bourgeoisie: 167
• Purveyor of the Public Life: 175
• The Girl of the Year: 199
• A METROPOLITAN SKETCHBOOK: 215
• STATUS STRIFE AND THE HIGH LIFE: 233
• The Saturday Route: 235
• The Luther of Columbus Circle: 243
• The New Art Gallery Society: 255
• The Secret Vice: 263
• The Nanny Mafia: 271
• LOVE AND HATE NEW YORK STYLE: 281
• Putting Daddy On: 283
• A Sunday Kind of Love: 293
• The Woman Who Has Everything: 301
• The Voices of Village Square: 313
• Why Doormen Hate Volkswagens: 321
• The Big League Complex: 327

About the author

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term “the Me Decade.” Among his many honors, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
• Author: Tom Wolfe
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2009
• ISBN: 0312429126, 9780312429126
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Social Science / Essays; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity