TY - BOOK AU - Weingarten, Marc TI - The gang that wouldn't write straight : Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism revolution U1 - 818/.540809 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Crown Publishers KW - Mailer, Norman - Criticism and interpretation KW - Journalism - United States - History - 20th century KW - Wolfe, Tom - Criticism and interpretation KW - Reportage literature, American - History and criticism KW - American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism KW - Didion, Joan - Criticism and interpretation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries; 1. Radical lit : some roots of a revolution -- 2. The great American magazine -- 3. King James and the man in the ice cream suit -- 4. Tom Wolfe on acid -- 5. The center cannot hold -- 6. Madras outlaw -- 7. Into the abyss -- 8. Hell sucks -- 9. History as a novel, the novel as history -- 10. The king of New York -- 11. Savage journeys -- 12. Fun with Dick and George -- 13. Vulgarian at the gate -- Epilogue : after the ball UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ruskin/Doc?id=10128778 ER -