Tom Wolfe is recognized around the world as the pre-eminent social commentator of our time. For over three decades he has chronicled and forecast American mass culture with a wit and insight that eludes most futurists. His runaway bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities stands as a brilliant evocation of both the peculiar class structure and politics of New York City, and the economic excesses of the 1980s. His most recent novel, A Man in Full has received both outstanding critical and popular success. Hailed by Time and The Wall Street Journal as even better than its phenomenally successful predecessor, it had an unprecedented first-run printing of 1.2 million copies and was nominated for the National Book Award four weeks prior to publication. As Newsweek states, "no writer - reporter or novelist - is getting our world on paper better than Tom Wolfe."

Considered the father of "New Journalism," Wolfe has penned some of the most memorable nonfiction books of our time as well, including The Right Stuff, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. His pioneering style and insightful commentary have helped him capture the American Book Award, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, the Columbia Journalism Award, and membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.

One of the most requested speakers in the nation, Wolfe has delighted some of the world's most prestigious corporations, associations and universities. With his current lecture program offered exclusively through GTN, he delivers a tour-de-force assessment of society's cultural mind-set as we enter the next millennium. He also examines the lessons learned from the recent past, both on the home front and in America's role as world leader. Wolfe proposes that if the '80s were the decade of "money fever," then we are now in the decade of "moral fever," with debate over moral codes and cultural values taking center stage in national and international politics. Much of the world now looks to us to see what choices we will make. And, as Wolfe adds, "the temperature is rising."