# The Purple Decades

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- Book: [The Purple Decades](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-wolfe/the-purple-decades) ([The Purple Decades.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-wolfe/the-purple-decades.md))
- Authors: [Tom Wolfe](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-wolfe)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-936-9
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2005-10-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the best from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Radical Chic , From Bauhaus to Our House , The Right Stuff and the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers . An essential introduction to the non-fiction writing of the inventor of New Journalism .