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Tom Wolfe shows us the mad spectacle of American life at millennium’s end.

​​Tom Wolfe surveys America on the threshold of a new millennium, observing “the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.”

No corner of the frantically, gropingly changing country is sheltered from his keen, satirical eye. He fixes his gaze on the transformations in the mating rituals of the American teenager, and examines how quantum advances in science are changing the ...