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...chime and PlayStation 2. Our next President may preside over the first catastrophic terrorist attack and will appoint Supreme Court Justices who may completely reshape the social landscape. But these questions seldom come up in the national political conversation. Today's ambitious girl from the sticks might think Silicon Valley a more happening place...
...three top contributors to Schiff's campaign are Moveon.org, a Silicon Valley-based political action committee (PAC), Dreamworks SKG and Time Warner. Rogan's top contributors are Verizon Communications, Outback Steakhouse and Philip Morris. Although federal regulations limit contributions from corporate PACs to $5,000, the top-donor organizations have easily found loopholes. Philip Morris, for example, has contributed over $11,000 to Rogan. Whichever candidate wins, these corporations will expect a return on their investment in the form of votes in Congress. The voters of the 27th district will still choose which man to send to Washington. Whomever they...
...Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World." Here, Wolfe touches on the themes he will take on in the rest of the book, topics like the Internet, art, sex in America, "intellectuals" (what are those?), the culture of Silicon Valley, and the strange habits of deconstructionists. After all, what better material for entertainment than that which is actually happening and unfolding around you? So goes the mantra of Tom Wolfe. He has established himself as the most visible (or vocal) proponent of detailed realism in American letters today...
...comes from Wolfe's discussion of how young people go about hooking up today, but the book also has chapters discussing the implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young Men Who Went West"). A sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears right after the "My Three Stooges" chapter, as if to say, judge my fiction for yourself, you skeptics! For some reason, Wolfe's famous (or not-so-famous, depending...
...they can be substantive and insightful as well. This is, I suppose, to be expected of Wolfe. He has a style that gives as much force to his argument as any amount of evidence does, drawing wonderful quasi-historical lessons and parallels, especially in his tale of Silicon Valley-who would have seen any connection between Grinnell, Iowa and the rise of an American legend? What you read here (or in any book review) does his skill absolutely no justice, because it is only as you actually read the stuff that you realize how cleverly crafted Wolfe's arguments...