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'The hell with it ...let chaos reign ...louder music, more wine ...All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame ...' Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner As well as Norman Mailer Joe Eszterhas Terry Southern Nicholas Tomalin George Plimpton James Mills Gay Talese Joan Didion and many other legends of tape and typewriter telling it like it is from Warhol's Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Diaries, letters & journals

• Full title: New Journalism
• Author: Edward Warren Johnson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780330243155
• ISBN: 0330243152
• ID: 04055605
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 298 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. October 1990

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