Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

153 pp. "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe. The book, Wolfe's fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, 'These Radical Chic Evenings,' first published in June of 1970 in New York Magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party and 'Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers,' about the response of many minorities to San Francisco's poverty programs. Both essays looked at the conflict between black rage and white guilt." "The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment."