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Who is Writing the Next Bonfire of the Vanities? Tom Wolfe or David Brooks?

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

David Brooks has an editorial today, Ward Three Mentality, that is strongly reminiscent of Bonfire of the Vanities, a brilliant book by Tom Wolfe chronicling the events of the 1980s mostly through the perspective of a bond trader who fancies himself a "Master of the Unvierse."  The book was utterly destroyed by being made into one of the worst movies of all time, with the bizarre cast of Tom Hanks (as the bond trader), Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis.

Full post as published by Conglomerate on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).