From the Publisher

"Might well be required reading in courses with names like American studies."—Time Magazine "I'm always rereading Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby."—David Gates "Tom Wolfe is a terrific writer."—The Washington Monthly  "Wolfe can do things with words and settings that few writers are capable of matching."—Tom Walker, The Denver Post "The man's done the impossible. He—Yes!—understands America!"—Houston Chronicle

"His eye and ear for detailed observation are incomparable; and observation is to the satirist what bullets are to a gun."—The Boston Sunday Globe