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Known for his trade-mark white suit, Thomas James Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. After being educated at Yale, he took a job as a reporter for the Springfield Massachusetts Union, starting as a general assignment reporter. After working there, he became a daily reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and it was during this work that he published his first book, a collection of articles about the burgeoning sixties counter-culture. This led to a string of bestselling essay books, most dealing with modern American society and the people that cause a stir within it.

After being published, Wolfe's talent could not be denied. From the late 60's on, Wolfe has lit a trail of fire throughout the literary world, writing books on the art world, the psychedelic 60's, teen sex, America's space program, and much more. He is the coiner of the term, 'good 'ole boy' and definer of "the me decade". Wolfe is now lauded as one of the true literary geniuses of the late 20th century; most of his books appearing on several best-of-the-century lists. Not one to rest on his laurels, Wolfe continues to produce new work at a regular pace. He currently lives in New York City with his wife Sheilla and their two children.

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Many of Wolfe's titles are available on audio book, and you may wish to begin with Wolfe's first fiction book, and possibly his most well known work "The Bonfire Of The Vanities". This book revolves around Sherman McCoy, a hot-shot, young investment banker with a 14-room apartment in Manhattan. Things begin to break down for McCoy however after he splits from a freak accident in the bronx, and what follows is an explosive unraveling.

For a good introduction to Wolfe's essays there's "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" which features two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in theme and substance, both dealing with political stances and social styles in our status-minded world. Finally there's the classic book on the origins of the American Space program "The Right Stuff". This book, which was 6 years in the making, tells the tale of men like Chuck Yeager, Pete Conrad, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn. These were men that had a confidence that went beyond bravery: "the right stuff".

Whether you want to hear his novels, or laugh at one of his incisive essays, LearnOutLoud.com is your one stop shop for the work of Tom Wolfe on audio.

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Hooking Up

Hooking Up (Simon & Schuster Audio)
by Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers...to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves, thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience...to the reasons why, at the dawn of a new millennium, no one is celebrating the second American Century. Hooking Up is a chronicle of the here and now.

The Painted Word

The Painted Word (Blackstone Audio)
by Tom Wolfe
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The Painted Word exposes the myths and men of modern art. From the fuliginous flatness of the fifties to the pop op-minimal sixties, right on through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't seventies, Tom Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art in an incandescent, hilarious and devastating blast.


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Ambush at Fort Bragg
Ambush at Fort Bragg
by Tom Wolfe
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As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers...

2.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a big panoramic story of the metropolis-the kind of fiction strangely absent from our literature in the second half of this century-that reinforces Tom Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we win in America

3.
Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1
Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1
by Tom Wolfe
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Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

4.
From Bauhaus to Our House
From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe
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In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement...

5.
Hooking Up
Hooking Up
by Tom Wolfe
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Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that...

6.
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe
Unabridged Edition
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With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

7.
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons
by Tom Wolfe
Abridged Edition
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With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.

8.
In Depth: Tom Wolfe
In Depth: Tom Wolfe
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Online Video

On Sunday, December 5th, author Tom Wolfe was our guest on In Depth.

9.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Cassette

In this book, his first, Tom Wolfe took a fresh look at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroed in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles.

10.
A Man in Full
A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
Abridged Edition
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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 outsize ego has at last hit up against reality.

11.
A Man in Full
A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe
Unabridged Edition
Available on: Audio CD

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality.

12.
The Painted Word
The Painted Word
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Cassette

The Painted Word exposes the myths and men of modern art.

13.
The Pump House Gang
The Pump House Gang
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Cassette

The Pump House Gang is named after a California surfing elite. In addition to this astonishing pack of joyphiliacs and presbyphobes, Wolfe takes us among noble Sixties savages of all varieties, from La Jolla to London, all baying for new forms of status.

14.
Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers
Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Download | Audio Cassette

This book consists of two devastatingly funny essays, closely related in theme and substance, both dealing with political stances and social styles in our status-minded world.

15.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Cassette

"A remarkable narrative of the U.S. space program and especially about the people who made it happen!"

16.
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Audio Cassette

Russell Baker is not only a very funny wirter, but a writer who recognizes and appreciates the humor in others.

17.
Tom Wolfe: What's Southern Today?
Tom Wolfe: What's Southern Today?
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Online Video

Tom Wolfe presents a lecture titled, What's Southern Today?


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