[Rummyfan]

How did Tom Wolpfe get away with it? He was simply smarter and more talented than them. One of the top American writers and commentators of the later 20th century and the early 21st. I've read just about everything he ever wrote.

[Rummyfan]

The ultimate explanation for his success, though, comes down to Wolfe’s unique talents, as both his fans and his critics acknowledge in the film. Nobody else combined his fearless contrarianism and erudition with his eye for spotting just the right absurdities and status details. Nobody else had those gifts—and, most important, nobody else could turn out such glorious prose. Agree with him or not, you couldn’t stop reading.

Exactly!

[Nifster]

Loved reading his stuff

Mao Maoing the Flack Catchers is a classic

[Pelham]

Tom Wolfe did with his typewriter what Rush Limbaugh would later do with a microphone.

Wolfe skewered and mocked pretentious liberals.

Rush was more politically partisan. Wolfe infuriated his targets without letting on his political choices.

“In footage from “Firing Line,” when William F. Buckley Jr. asked him to describe his political views, Wolfe quoted Balzac’s description of the politics in his novels: “I belong to the party of the opposition.”

[monkeyshine]

My first exposure to him was The Bonfire of the Vanities. He did a pretty good job skewering the 1980’s too.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I have always intended to read him but never got around to it. It’s time to change that.

[pfflier]

Isn't The Right Stuff one of his works? If so, it is one of the most epic books I have ever read.

[jocon307]

Gotta say to all, I’m not that familiar with Wolfe, but the audiobook of Bonfire of the Vanities was one of the best I’ve listened to. Highly recommended. The reader does amazing stuff, don’t think it would have been as good if I was just reading it myself.

[Karliner]

Life was more free back then. There were characters all over but Wolfe was smart enough and talented enough to write it all down

[Yollopoliuhqui]

It may remain surprising, but people with the yarbles can easily get away with telling the truth. It’s the Info Age, for crissakes; masticating spectators are a doomed species. ABSOLUTELY ALL the data you need to create a cognitive revolution is a mouse click away. The Nazi Deep State’s supply lines, influence channels, hidden assets, personnel lists, banking data...it’s all an open book. Raid the archives, do the research, put it together, show others how to put it together. There is a Wikipedia page called “Hitler’s Philosophers”. Start there

[NetAddicted]

Rd later.

[Gratia]

His last book is wonderful and fun, especially if you are a rational person who questions Darwinism. The Kingdom of Speech.

Very entertaining. Not dry at all. Wolfe reviews the issue of speech as it bears on the question of evolution, and to my mind definitively refutes Darwinism. In the meanwhile, he humorously makes Darwin, Chomsky and assorted others look like the jerks they are.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think he went by “Tom” because there was an earlier American novelist named Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938).