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	Back to Blood  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. ISBN #W2170 $30.00
	The Right Stuff: Illustrated Edition  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, Tom Wolfe's landmark work about NASA's nascent space program, Project Mercury, became an instant bestseller, going on to sell more than 2.5 million copies. Now, for the first time, this great American classic is illuminated with photographs and memorabilia that vividly represent this pivotal moment in our nation's history. Hardback. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W431 $35.00
	The Painted Word  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 In this short book, Tom Wolfe turns his satirical attention to the contemporary art world of the 1970s. Critiquing both artists like Jackson Pollock and art theorists like Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, "The Painted Word" carries you through the greatest art scenes in 1975 New York City. The New York Sunday News says, "If you have ever stared uncomprehendingly at an abstract painting that admired critics have said you ought to dig, take heart. Tom Wolfe, in a scathing new satire, is on your side... Don't miss it. It may enrage you. It may confirm your darkest suspicions about modern art. In any case, it will amuse you." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W524 $14.00
	A Man in Full  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Tom Wolfe's second novel tells the story of Charlie Croker, a real-estate developer in Atlanta in trouble with the banks, and Conrad Hensley, a young worker in a warehouse run by one of Croker's subsidiary companies. The Indianapolis Star says "A Man in Full" is "A big, complex interweaving of characters to love, to hate, to marvel at, to be appalled by, to recognize as peers in our humans-with-faults parade through life." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W526 $16.00
	I Am Charlotte Simmons  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered teen from North Carolina, discovers a unique culture at one of America's top schools, Dupont University. "I Am Charlotte Simmons" follows one young girl's evolution during her freshman year as she faces sex, beer, and the all-powerful "Cool." Newday writes, "Our preeminent social realist...trains his all-seeing eye on the institution of the American university...Wolfe's rhapsodic prose style finds its perfect target in academia's beer-soaked bacchanals." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W528 $15.00
	Hooking Up  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 In "Hooking Up," Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing "the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000." From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor of "The New Yorker," to a remarkable portrait of Bob Noyce, the man who invented Silicon Valley, Tom Wolfe the master of reportage and satire returns in vintage form. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W530 $13.00
	The Right Stuff  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Tom Wolfe writes, "This book grew out of some ordinary curiosity. What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few astronauts to find out." Winner of the National Book Award, "The Right Stuff" tells of the courage and dedication of those pilots-turned-astronauts who became essential players in the budding space program. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W532 $16.00
	Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Comprised of two short essays written by Wolfe in the 1970s, "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catcher" tells how Leonard Bernstein threw a party to raise money for the Black Panthers and how minorities in San Francisco unite to make themselves heard. "Time Magazine" says, "What Tom Wolfe has done is create an appallingly funny, cool, smart, deflative two-scene social drama about America's biggest, hottest, and most perplexing problem - the confrontation between Black Rage and White Guilt." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W534 $15.00
	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Wolfe once more turns his satirical pen to a new subject: the 1960s and the culture that produced grown men who would paint their bus in neon colors. "The New York Times" says, "'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book... the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter... Vibrating dazzle!" Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W536 $16.00
	In Our Time  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 "In Our Time" continues Wolfe's observations on the culture of the American 1970s. In this short book, Wolfe focuses on the people--the intellectuals, self-helpers, artists, and more. "The New York Times" says, "Wolfe understands the human animal like no sociologist around. He tweaks his readers' every buried thought and prejudice. He sees through everything." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W538 $17.95
	Bonfire of the Vanities  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Wolfe turns his attention to 1980s New York City in this groundbreaking novel, from the combatants in the South Bronx to the scum of Wall Street. "Time Magazine" says, "'Bonfire' moves with a swift comic logic....An imaginative and intricate plot...welds Wolfe's descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading, and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force." Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W540 $16.00
	Pump House Gang  Tom Wolfe, Class of 1951 Tom Wolfe's second collection takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London. "The Boston Globe" writes, "The whole book is savage, satiric, bawdy, funny, and wild!" Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W542 $20.00
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