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The Purple Decades: A Reader teachers and bon appétitThe essential collection of Tom Wolfes writing on a turning point era in modern American culture, newly repackaged and reissued with the original introduction by Joe David Bellamy. It was in the 1960s and 1970sthose purple decadesthat Tom Wolfe rose to fame as one of the late twentieth century pioneers of American literature. He became the foremost chronicler of the gaudiest period in American history, much of which is spread out before us in these