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The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, And the New Journalism Revolution
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Three Rivers Pr
Publication date
December 12, 2006
Pages
325
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400049837
ISBN-10
1400049830
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
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Original list price
$13.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Traces the evolution of a literary form of journalism within the context of the history of America since the end of the Second World War, offering incisive profiles of such gifted writers as John Hershey, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion in terms of their lasting influence on American journalism and cultural life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back againâfrom war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldnât provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos.
Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulentâand significantâyears in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfeâs white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompsonâs drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herrâs redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the eraâHarold Hayes at Esquire, Clay Felker at New York, and Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing.
This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didnât just cover stories but immersed themselves in them, and when journalism didnât just report America but reshaped it.
âWithin a seven-year period, a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhereâTom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, Michael Herrâto impose some order on all of this American mayhem, each in his or her own distinctive manner (a few old hands, like Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, chipped in, as well). They came to tell us stories about ourselves in ways that we couldnât, stories about the way life was being lived in the sixties and seventies and what it all meant to us. The stakes were high; deep fissures were rending the social fabric, the world was out of order. So they became our master explainers, our town criers, even our moral conscienceâthe New Journalists.â âfrom the Introduction
From the Hardcover edition.
Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back againâfrom war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldnât provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos.
Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulentâand significantâyears in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfeâs white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompsonâs drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herrâs redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the eraâHarold Hayes at Esquire, Clay Felker at New York, and Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing.
This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didnât just cover stories but immersed themselves in them, and when journalism didnât just report America but reshaped it.
âWithin a seven-year period, a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhereâTom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, Michael Herrâto impose some order on all of this American mayhem, each in his or her own distinctive manner (a few old hands, like Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, chipped in, as well). They came to tell us stories about ourselves in ways that we couldnât, stories about the way life was being lived in the sixties and seventies and what it all meant to us. The stakes were high; deep fissures were rending the social fabric, the world was out of order. So they became our master explainers, our town criers, even our moral conscienceâthe New Journalists.â âfrom the Introduction
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Paperback
from Pgw (October 14, 2014)
9781940207247 | details & prices | 336 pages | List price $14.95
About: Within a seven-year period, a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhere  Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S.
About: Within a seven-year period, a group of writers emerged, seemingly out of nowhere  Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S.
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Reprint edition from Three Rivers Pr (December 12, 2006)
9781400049837 | details & prices | 325 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Traces the evolution of a literary form of journalism within the context of the history of America since the end of the Second World War, offering incisive profiles of such gifted writers as John Hershey, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S.
About: Traces the evolution of a literary form of journalism within the context of the history of America since the end of the Second World War, offering incisive profiles of such gifted writers as John Hershey, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S.
Miscellaneous
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