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Sep 15, 2023 · Tom Wolfe: The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening. The ‘Me’ Decade. The new alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality—remaking, remodeling, elevating, and...
"The ' Me ' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase " 'Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the 1970s. The essay was first published as the cover story in the August 23, 1976 issue of New York magazine [1] and later appeared in his collection Mauve ...
Titled "The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” the piece details the narcissism that Wolfe observed in the era’s art, politics and popular culture. The "Me Decade"...
May 15, 2018 · In fact, the essay’s full title was “ The ‘Me’ Decade and Third Great Awakening ,” a historically grounded, uncannily prescient explanation of how beliefs in the paranormal and...
Jan 1, 1977 · However, "The Me Decade and The Third Great Awakening" and "The Intelligent Coed's Guide To America" (despite its awkward title - was "coed" ever not faintly derogatory sounding? - in this case, he was probably playing on that fact) should be required reading for any undergraduate course attempting to make sense of the latter half of the 20th ...
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May 15, 2018 · A 1976 New York cover story is responsible for one of Wolfe’s most enduring phrases: “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening.” Along with me decade as his term for the...
His Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1977) included Wolfe's noted essay, The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening. The Mercury Seven astronauts were the subject of The Right Stuff. In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the pilots who became America's first astronauts.
