Essays on Tom Wolfe

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Author: Tom Wolfe. The grounds on which Thomas Wolfe created this documentation of the Merry Pranksters is that he attempts to re-create both the mental and physical atmosphere of their adventure and exploration across America. 4) Specific evidence in supporting…

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script” (Wolfe 159) As author Tom Wolfe mentions in his book, The…

Tom Wolfe’s the “right stuff” is the story of the lives of some of America’s pilots and its first astronauts. These men include pet Conrad, Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Gus Grisson, Wally Shirra, Alan Sheppard, Gordon Cooper, Scot Carpenter and Deke Slayton. Some of these…