Uncommon Knowledge: Tom Wolfe

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Partner:: Hoover Institution
Location:: Hoover Institution
Stanford, CA
Event Date:: 05.12.08
Speakers:: Peter Robinson,; Tom Wolfe
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Summary: Peter Robinson engages America’s master novelist in a conversation that ranges from the death of the American novel to the "charming aristocracy" that seeks to dictate literary standards to the intersection of culture and the latest findings in neuroscience.

Along the way, Tom Wolfe reaffirms his place as the preeminent chronicler of the changing American scene - Hoover Institution

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Peter Robinson

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits the Hoover Institution's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, "Uncommon Knowledge."

Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.

Tom Wolfe

Dr. Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe is an American author and journalist, best known as one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Wolfe graduated from St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia before attending Washington and Lee University as an undergraduate. He then went on to graduate from Yale University with a Ph.D. in American Studies.

Tom Wolfe is the author of many books including I Am Charlotte Simmons, Hooking Up, A Man in Full, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Purple Decades, From Bauhaus to Our House, In Our Time, The Right Stuff, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, The Painted Word, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

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01.: Introducing Tom Wolfe

00 min 52 sec

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02.: Literary Techniques in Journalism

02 min 49 sec

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03.: Immigrants Assimilating

01 min 44 sec

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04.: Issues on Immigration

02 min 02 sec

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05.: Sources of Wolfe's Ideas

01 min 19 sec

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06.: Young Peoples' Interest in Writing Novels

02 min 58 sec

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07.: Accusing Wolfe of being a Journalism

04 min 23 sec

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08.: Power of the Word

04 min 41 sec

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09.: The Point of View on Science

02 min 15 sec

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10.: Evolution and Speech

01 min 34 sec

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11.: Importance of Voice

01 min 22 sec

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12.: Belief in God

02 min 06 sec

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13.: Man and Rationality

01 min 06 sec

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14.: Praising George Bush

03 min 28 sec

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15.: America's Future Greatness

03 min 12 sec

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Tom Wolfe on the Journalistic Approach to American Novels

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Tom Wolfe Historicizes George W. Bush's Presidency

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Tom Wolfe on Writing Novels and the Charming Aristocracy

02 min 25 sec

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