num_pages: 243
description: "When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays -- and even provided the 1970s with its "The Me Decade."
language: English
title: Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
titlecomplete: Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine
genres: Essays, Political Science, Politics, Nonfiction, Journalism, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 466
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux