'The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame . . . ' Tom Wolfe...

"The Right Stuff" von Tom Wolfe ist ein Sachbuch, das die Anfänge des US-amerikanischen Raumfahrtprogramms beleuchtet. Es konzentriert sich auf die Mercury Seven, die ersten Astronauten der NASA, und untersucht sowohl ihre beruflichen...

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 football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose...

In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are...