Tom Wolfe Strikes Familiar Chords
Author slightly repetitive in Newsweek feature
Newsweek trumpeted its first digital cover story by Tom Wolfe as his return to Wall Street, a quarter century after his classic The Bonfire of the Vanities. But Wolfe actually wrote about Wall Street more recently than that in the '07 launch issue of the watch-it-now-it’s-gone Condé Nast Portfolio. Here’s a cheat sheet of how Wolfe captured the underbelly of capitalism, then and now:
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Portfolio:
"Not bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, but bama bampa barama bam bammity bam bam bammity barampa FIRE! was the first thing she thought of because nobody ever banged on your apartment door in a building like this nobody would be so impolite as to even rap on your door with his knuckles unannounced in a building like this much less bang on it with both fists for this was not one fist pounding on the door but both fists."
Newsweek:
"When it...
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