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The Purple Decades - A Reader

by Tom Wolfe · 1982

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This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

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journalistsjournalistsMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 396 pages
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