The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is Tom Wolfe’s groundbreaking 1965 collection of New Journalism essays that vividly chronicles American pop culture, consumerism, and social change in the early 1960s.

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instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author Tom Wolfe NERFINISHED
containsWork Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can’t Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!! NERFINISHED
The Fifth Beatle NERFINISHED
The Girl of the Year NERFINISHED
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (title essay) NERFINISHED
There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
depicts American advertising culture
emerging celebrity icons of the 1960s
mass media spectacle
describedAs groundbreaking collection of essays
landmark work of American non-fiction
focusesOn celebrity culture
custom car culture
status symbols in American life
youth culture
followedBy The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test NERFINISHED
genre New Journalism
literary journalism
non-fiction
hasStyle highly descriptive prose
satirical tone
use of onomatopoeia and exclamation
influenced development of New Journalism in the 1960s
later narrative non-fiction writers
language English
literaryMovement New Journalism NERFINISHED
mainSubject American pop culture
consumerism
social change in the United States
mediaType print
notableFor pioneering use of fictional techniques in journalism
vivid narrative style
partOf Tom Wolfe bibliography
precededBy Tom Wolfe’s magazine journalism of the early 1960s
publicationYear 1965
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
setInPeriod early 1960s
timeOfContext postwar American prosperity
pre-counterculture 1960s America
titleOrigin slang description of a customized car paint job

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Tom Wolfe notableWork The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby