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RADICAL CHIC & MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS. Copyright © 1970
by Tom Wolfe. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of
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Radical Chic was serialized in Chicago Today in February 1971 and
Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers appeared in Cosmopolitan in April
1971. Radical Chic appeared in somewhat different form in New
York magazine in June 1970. The author is grateful to the magazine
for permission to reprint.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42913-3
ISBN-10: 0-312-42913-4
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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