Hooking Up (38 page)

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Authors: Tom Wolfe

Tags: #Literary Criticism, #General

1
With a tip of the hat to Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger and their delightful book
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
(London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999).
2
The term “neurometric” is closely identified with John, who has devised both the Neurometric Battery, a comprehensive system for analyzing brain functions, and the Neurometric Analyzer, a patented instrument for making use of the Battery; but John had nothing to do with Neurometrics, Inc. He describes the Battery in
Neurometric Evaluation of Brain Function in Normal and Learning Disabled Children
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989).
3
Recounted by the British prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in the magazine
City Journal.
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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.
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
eISBN 9781429979023
First eBook Edition : January 2011
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

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