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Franklin Library leather edition of Tom Wolfe's "Hooking Up," a Limited edition, Frontispiece by Mark Rogalski one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, PERSONALLY SIGNED by TOM WOLFE, published in 2000. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr., who lived from 1930 – May 14, 2018, was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Bound in deep hunter green leather with a gentleman dressed in white leaning on a cane on the front board, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Tom Wolfe writes: "By 2000, an estimated 50 percent of all hits, or "log-ons," were at Web sites purveying what was known as "adult material." The word "pornography had disappeared down the memory hole along with "proletariat." Instances of marriages breaking up because of Web-sex addition were rising in number. "Hooking Up" was a term known in the year 2000 to almost every American child over the age of nine. "First base referred to embracing and kissing; "second base" referred to groping and fondling and deep, or "French" kissing, commonly known as "heavy petting"; "third base" referred to fellatio, usually known in polite conversation by the ambiguous term "oral sex"; and "home plate" meaning learning each other's names. Wolfe continues: "By the year 2000, girls used "score" as an active verb indicating sexual conquest." Wolfe ranges from coast to coast chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers. . . to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new field of genetics and neuroscience. . . to the inner workings of television's magazine-show sting operations. In sum, here is Tom Wolfe at the height of his powers as reporter, novelist, sociologist, memoirist, and-to paraphrase what Balzac called himself-the very secretary of American society in the 21st century. 293 pages. I offer Combined shipping.