5/11/2023 0 Comments I am charlotte simmons review![]() The author remains convinced that America has so much '"money in the bank" - not just wealth, but brainpower and military power - that the country can afford the current condition of campus life. "There were many surprises to someone like myself who went to college in the late '40s and the early '50s," he tells NPR's Robert Siegel. Wolfe traveled to universities across the country to research contemporary campus life for I Am Charlotte Simmons, which depicts college as a hedonistic playground of non-stop drinking and rampant casual sex. That includes rich, bigoted frat boys, skinny sorority girls, leftwing campus intellectuals and members of the university's national championship basketball team. At Dupont University, the elite fictional school in Tom Wolfe's new novel, the students have sex on their minds and vulgarities on their lips. ![]()
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