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earlier this week as you probably heard, the great, great writer, tom wolfe died at the age of 88. the literary giant chronicled social upheaval in america, immersing readers in everything from the california hippie counterculture to the space race to manhattan s moneyed status-seekers, he was one of the leading practitioners of what came to be known as the new journalism. a style very familiar now that infuses reporting with novelistic flair and conventional grammar. he coined expressions like radical chic and the me decade. with the bonfire of the vanities. he made the successful late career transition to a novelist. a practice he called stalking the billion-footed beast. shortly after his work of nonfiction the right stuff was turned into a blockbuster movie. the grandson of a confederate rifleman, wolfe was born in

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