Wolfe, Tom

Discusses the lives, ambitions, thoughts, and feelings of American astronauts before, during, and after their historic flights.

"... [an] argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--Amazon.com.

Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan becomes involved in a freak accident. Prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on him.

Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers.

Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan, becomes involved in a freak accident, and prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on him.

A collection of satirical essays and cartoons in which the author comments on life and culture in late twentieth-century America.