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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976. [1] It includes the essay in which he coined the term "the 'Me' Decade" to refer to the 1970s. In addition to the stories, Wolfe also illustrated the book. [2] [3]
The essay was first published as the cover story in the August 23, 1976, issue of New York magazine [1] and later appeared in his collection Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. [ 2 ] In one of the essay's most famous passages, exemplifying his style of description, Wolfe called Jimmy Carter a " Missionary lectern-pounding Amen ten-finger C ...
His Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1977) included Wolfe's noted essay, The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening. The Mercury Seven astronauts were the subject of The Right Stuff. In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the pilots who became America's first astronauts.
After The Painted Word, Wolfe published a collection of his essays, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976), and his history of the earliest years of the space program, The Right Stuff (1979). Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word , and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a ...
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It first appeared under a longer title in the July 1967 issue of Esquire magazine, [1] and was later published in the collection Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. [2] The essay introduced the term "pornoviolence" in reference to graphic written or audiovisual depictions of violence, which Wolfe argued were used in newspapers, magazines ...