Download or read book The Purple Decades written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1982-10-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Wolfe's The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.