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From the Archive: Tom Wolfe
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Journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe talks to WTTW's John Callaway in 1976.
Journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe talks to WTTW's John Callaway in 1976 about his signature white suit, how the counterculture helped lead the way for a surge in evangelicalism, and the hypocrisies of "culture."
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From the WTTW Archive
From the Archive: Tom Wolfe
Clip | 4m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe talks to WTTW's John Callaway in 1976 about his signature white suit, how the counterculture helped lead the way for a surge in evangelicalism, and the hypocrisies of "culture."
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