The New Journalism

'The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's anybody's ballgame . . . '
Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation's journalistic talent:
Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer
Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby
Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields
Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner
As well as
Norman Mailer
Joe Eszterhas
Terry Southern
Nicholas Tomalin
George Plimpton
James Mills
Gay Talese
Joan Didion
and many other legends of tape and typewriter telling it like it is from Warhol's Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US.