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Tom Wolfe: Crime and Moral Fever in the 1990s

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  • ABOUT Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolfe helped create the New Journalism.  His early writing appears in such books as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang, and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In 1979, Wolfe won the American Book Award for nonfiction for The Right Stuff, an account of the early U.S. space program and the psychology of its pilots and astronauts.  His most recent book is I Am Charlotte Simmons, a novel about college life.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 1994.

Social critic and best-selling author Tom Wolfe proposes: If the 80's was the "era of money fever," then the '90s heralds a new "moral fever," a return to basic values. Commenting on a wide range of statistics and anecdotes, Tom Wolfe, gives very good idea of what crime in the United States was like in the 1990's; how it happens and how it may be in the future.

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