Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

by Tom Wolfe

Synopsis

The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment, in Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.

Release date: April 1, 2010

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Print pages: 141