In Our Time [Paperback]

Reissued for todays reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast,In Our Timeexemplifies Tom Wolfes writing on 1970s America.

In Our Timeis a biting collection of Tom Wolfes essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1970s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor-sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and exuberant plain speaker of American letters. Wolfes joyriding satirical tour through the emerging American archetypes of the 1970s is an essential portrait of the delirious, maddening decade.

Tom Wolfe(19302018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics asThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff, andRadical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novelsThe Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full, andI Am Charlotte Simmons. He is credited with coining the term the Me Decade. Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.