"Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas. Everyone should send him money and other fine things. Hats off to Tom Wolfe!" –Terry Southern
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The New York Times "Some consider Mailer our greatest journalist; my candidate is Wolfe." –
Studs Terkel, Book Week "A Day-Glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!" –
The Washington Post "Electrifying." –
San Francisco Chronicle "An amazing book . . . A book that definitely gives Wolfe the edge on the nonfiction novel." –
The Village Voice "Among journalists, Wolfe is a genuine poet; what makes him so good is his ability to get inside, to not merely describe (although he is a superb reporter), but to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm." –
Newsweek