The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby – Audiobook Online

“The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” by Tom Wolfe is a collection of essays and articles about American pop culture and its various subcultures in the 1960s. Written in Wolfe’s signature style of “New Journalism,” the book features vivid descriptions, colorful language, and an immersive approach to the subject matter. Some of the topics covered in the book include custom cars and hot rods, surfing, the Playboy Club, and rock music. Wolfe also interviews various personalities, such as “The Surfing Rabbi,” “Mr. Jelly Roll Soul,” and “The Right Stuff.” The book offers a humorous and sometimes sardonic commentary on American society during a time of rapid change and social upheaval. It is a celebration of the unconventional and the outsiders who dared to challenge the status quo.

The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby – Audiobook Online By: Tom Wolfe

“A brilliant book by a genius,” says Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this classic 1960s exploration from the founder of the New Press and author of influential works like Attempts. Vanity’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Campfire.

Tom Wolfe explores the style and culture of the 1960s in this dynamic collection of essays – originally independents, many published in Esquire – written in a unique style. , his freedom and his uncanny ability to call it as he saw it.

Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby takes a peek at the then-burgeoning world of custom automobiles, examines the life of professional NASCAR driver Junior Johnson, and provides an in-depth account of how Lyndon Johnson attempted to star. Copy the classic style of JFK. The piece invites listeners inside the quaint city Las Vegas is becoming, depicting intriguing pop characters and exploring some of the bars the Beatles frequented. Voiced by award-winning narrator Oliver Wyman, this book brings each character and Wolfe back to life.

Tom Wolfe has earned my admiration with this book and The Painted Word and I’ve enjoyed all of his books since then. I met him once when he talked at a collection of creative directors that advertise and find him knowledgeable, satirical and entertaining like his books.

This is a collection of short stories about contemporary New York and America written in the early 1960s. As you might expect, Wolfe is a bit rougher in the corners here, and so there’s a bit of a bump. and omitted. Still, America’s Last Hero, about racer Junior Johnson and NASCAR’s early beginnings, is breathtaking – these are Wolfe’s true ideas about American masculinity that blossomed in The Right Stuff.

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