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Several of these pieces originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The American Spectator, Esquire, Forbes ASAP, Harper’s, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and The Tatler. “Ambush at Fort Bragg” first appeared in Rolling Stone.
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eISBN 9781429979023
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wolfe, Tom.
Hooking up / Tom Wolfe. p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-42023-4
1. Title.
PS3573.0526 H66 2000
813’.54—dc21
00-058748