The New Journalism

摘要: 'The hell with it ...let chaos reign ...louder music, more wine ...All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets off! The odds cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame ...' Tom Wolfe introduces exults in his generation's journalistic talent: Truman Capote inside mind of a psychotic killer Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at Kentucky Derby Michael Herr dispatching reality from Vietnam killing fields Rex Reed giving star treatment to ageing Ava Gardner As well as Norman Mailer Joe Eszterhas Terry Southern Nicholas Tomalin George Plimpton James Mills Gay Talese Joan Didion many other legends tape typewriter telling like Warhol's Factory White House lawn, saddle Harley toughest football team US.