Editing Tom Wolfe (section)

==Non-fiction books==
In 1965, Wolfe published a collection of his articles in this style, ''[[The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby]]'', adding to his notability. He published a second collection of articles, ''[[The Pump House Gang]]'', in 1968. Wolfe wrote on popular culture, architecture, politics, and other topics that underscored, among other things, how American life in the 1960s had been transformed by post-WWII economic prosperity. His defining work from this era is ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' (published the same day as ''The Pump House Gang'' in 1968), which for many epitomized the 1960s. Although a conservative in many ways (in 2008, he claimed never to have used [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] and to have tried [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] only once<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1837219,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901211827/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1837219,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 1, 2008 | magazine=Time | title=10 Questions for Tom Wolfe | date=August 28, 2008 | access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref>), Wolfe became one of the notable figures of the decade.

In 1970, he published two essays in book form as ''[[Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers]]''. "Radical Chic" was a biting account of a party given by composer and conductor [[Leonard Bernstein]] to raise money for the [[Black Panther Party]]. "Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers" was about the practice by some African Americans of using racial intimidation ("mau-mauing") to extract funds from government welfare bureaucrats ("flak catchers"). Wolfe's phrase, "[[radical chic]]", soon became a popular derogatory term for critics to apply to upper-class [[leftism]]. His ''[[Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine]]'' (1977) included Wolfe's noted essay, ''[[The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening]]''.

[[File:Original 7 Astronauts in Spacesuits - GPN-2000-001293.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The [[Mercury Seven]] astronauts were the subject of ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]''.]]
In 1979, Wolfe published ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]'', an account of the pilots who became America's first [[astronaut]]s. Following their training and unofficial, even foolhardy, exploits, he likened these heroes to "[[single combat]] warriors" of a bygone era, going forth to battle in the [[Space Race]] on behalf of their country. In 1983, the book was adapted into an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning [[The Right Stuff (film)|feature film]].

Wolfe also wrote two critiques of and social histories of [[modern art]] and [[modern architecture]], ''[[The Painted Word]]'' and ''[[From Bauhaus to Our House]]'', published in 1975 and 1981, respectively. ''The Painted Word'' mocked the excessive insularity of the art world and its dependence on what he saw as faddish critical theory. In ''From Bauhaus to Our House'' he explored what he said were the negative effects of the [[Bauhaus]] style on the evolution of modern architecture.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ragen|2002|pp=22–29}}</ref>

In 2016, Wolfe published ''[[The Kingdom of Speech]]'', a critique of the work of [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Noam Chomsky]]. Wolfe synthesized what he construed as the views of [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] and Chomsky on the language organ as not being a product of natural selection to suggest that speech is an invention that is responsible for establishing our humanity. Some critics claimed that Wolfe's view on how humans developed speech were not supported by research and were opinionated.<ref>{{cite news |last=Coyne |first=Jerry |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/his-white-suit-unsullied-by-research-tom-wolfe-tries-to-take-down-charles-darwin/2016/08/31/8ee6d4ee-4936-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html |title=His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=September 1, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=James |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/08/24/tom-wolfe-traces-debunking-darwin-ideas-how-humans-developed-speech/XYH7pZDoEAgYFkYd1nTtrI/story.html |title=Tom Wolfe traces the often-amusing history of bickering over how humans started talking |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=August 25, 2016 |access-date=August 26, 2016 }}</ref>