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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. Profile: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. (March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia - May 14, 2018, New York, New York), known as Tom Wolfe, was a best-selling American author and journalist. He was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
15 Σεπ 2023 · In the 1950s and 1960s it began to be seen as the prerogative of the rich, the powerful, and the celebrated (Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and show-business figures), although it retained the...
When journalist Tom Wolfe (1931–) surveyed the changes that had swept America in the past few years, he gave the decade a label that has stuck: "The Me Decade." Wolfe and others noticed that the dominant concerns of most people had shifted from issues of social and political justice that were so important in the 1960s to a more selfish focus ...
26 Μαΐ 2018 · Tom Wolfe was meticulously researching the Pranksters and their philosophy of LSD-led liberation for what became The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, his 1968 New Journalism landmark. “He was really...
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
In 1976, journalist Tom Wolfe (1931–) coined the term "The Me Decade" to describe the 1970s. It was not a compliment. In the eyes of many, Americans in the 1970s retreated from the political and social changes they had pursued in the 1960s and were happy to focus only on themselves. The reasons why they did this were many.
4 Απρ 2015 · Though the phrase “The ‘Me’ Decade” may have been coined a few years earlier, its popularity took off following the publication of an essay by the journalist, novelist, and cultural critic Tom Wolfe entitled “ The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening ” that appeared in the August 23, 1976, issue of New York magazine.
