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00:02 >> Controversial.

00:03 >> Cynical.

00:03 >> Devastating.

00:04 >> Outlandish.

00:05 >> Masterpiece.

00:06 >> Witty.

00:06 >> Powerful.

00:07 >> Complex.

00:07 >> Absolutely fascinating.

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00:12 >> Bestseller from his first book.

00:14 >> Lines around the block.

00:16 >> The most famous writer in the United States.

00:18 >> He completely changed the way people saw the astronauts.

00:21 >> Many New Yorkers say his novel has defined their city as no other has.

00:25 >> His books captured the moment.

00:29 >> Better than anything else.

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00:34 >> At that point, the newspaper does not encourage distinctive voice.

00:38 >> Here's today's front page story.

00:40 >> Who, what, when, where, why?

00:41 Everything had to be in the first paragraph.

00:44 No sense of style.

00:45 >> There was a so-called objective voice, and I had frankly found it absolutely

00:50 boring.

00:50 >> He tried to represent the sounds of what he was hearing.

00:55 >> The ellipses and the double colons.

00:58 >> The titles of things.

00:59 >> Tom Wolf book title.

01:02 What is.

01:02 >> Radical chic.

01:03 >> The bonfire of the vanities.

01:05 >> Masters of the universe.

01:06 >> The right stuff.

01:07 >> Wolf creates this sort of pseudo movement.

01:10 >> Hunter S.

01:10 Thompson going to the Kentucky Derby.

01:12 >> Oh my God.

01:13 >> Joan Didion going to San Francisco.

01:15 >> New journalism.

01:16 What is it?

01:17 >> The use of every technique known to prose in non-fiction.

01:22 >> He's creating a mythology of the country as he's writing.

01:26 >> Tom was just letting us see what he was feeling as he experienced it.

01:31 >> I belong to the party of the opposition.

01:36 >> He was a contradicted character.

01:38 You would never know such a polite person with a pen in his hand could be a

01:42 terrorist.

01:43 >> We just don't have journalists that huge anymore.

01:46 >> Is it correct that you lack compassion?

01:52 >> It's not having or not having compassion.

01:54 >> My role is to discover the truth is always revolutionary.

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