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Tom Wolfe elevated journalism into enduring literature

  • Written by William McKeen, Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Boston University
Tom Wolfe, in 2010, fired up and holding forth.AP Photo/Tina Fineberg

In 20th-century popular culture, journalists were portrayed as needy hacks desperate to write the Great American Novel. Journalism was the means to an end that few achieved.

But Tom Wolfe, who died May 14 at age 88, helped change that in the 1960s. He was one of the New...

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