Professor Elam

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Read the reviews of this book here.   I checked Amazon. While some of his titles trade for pennies, Buckley’s God and Man still fetches twelve bucks, an incredible statement about a 1951 book re published and updated in 1977.  There’s that demand and supply thing.

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While Hunter S. Thompson gets credit for gonzo journlism he should really only get credit for whacked out drugged out whatever lifestyle  which led to his suicide.  Instead try this 1965 delight that got the real gonzo journalist,  Tom Wolfe , rolling to be the best journalist of the post 1960s era.  College has evolved to a sort of cafeteria style fast food drive by window experience. It wasn’t then.  And this book set the tone for others that followed including The Pump House Gang  and Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers.  His later Bonfire of the Vanities about a Master of the Universe bond Trader was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.  If your college English courses did not expose you to Tom, well, happily you encountered him here.