The New Journalism. An Anthology, Edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson.
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Hardcover Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generations 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 Warhols Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US. Item #29498
Price: $350.00