The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

<p><b>Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant form-bending dive into the future of America as it </b><b>careened</b><b> through the 1960s </b><br><br>In 1965 Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book <i>The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby</i> an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture its dances bouffant hairdos customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector Cassius Clay Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia &#150; as well as asking why do doormen hate Volkswagens? &#150; Wolfe&#146;s flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction.<br><br><b>'Journalism it is said is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe the cultural observer and social critic par excellence' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>