WEDNESDAY, MAY 07, 2008 The Word According to Tom Wolfe: Chapter 3 of 5 Darwin, Marx, Freud, (E.O.) Wilson? Tom Wolfe says the common thread there is the power of the word — of ideas that change human history in large and obvious ways. PERMALINK About Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe is the author of numerous bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction. Among these are The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), The Pump House Gang (1968), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970), The Right Stuff (1979), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1985), A Man in Full (1998), Hooking Up (2000), and I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004). He is at present working on a novel due in 2009, called Back to Blood. He lives in New York City.

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