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To: haroldeveryman
I’d recommend “Radical Chic” by Tom Wolfe....

The subtitle was Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, I remember. Read some excerpts, it was very clever and an instant classic. I just didn't feel like reading about black nationalists ripping and raging at white people, while guests at tony Manhattan parties hosted by Leonard Bernstein.

14 posted on 02/14/2012 3:54:10 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus; familyop

“The subtitle was Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”

“Mau Mauing the Flack” Catchers was not a subtitle, but another novella length essay that was included in the book along with “Radical Chic” was about phoney white liberals patronizing black radicals (”The invite a Panther to lunch Bunch”) rather than the Panthers themselves.

“Mau Mauing” was about black street youths making a flack catcher almost do it in his pants when they realized that a government summer jobs program was bogus. Almost as funny.


23 posted on 02/14/2012 9:37:12 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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