THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WOLFE

      

Thank you, Tom, for 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' which I read late in life but provided such a wonderful window to the past of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and The Grateful Dead.

Thank you, Tom, for that splendid trio of city culture novels - New York's 'A Bonfire of the Vanities' , Atlanta's 'A Man in Full' and Miami's 'Back to Blood'.

Thank you most of all, Tom, for spotlighting the mystic otherness of test pilot and astronaut in 'The Right Stuff', a classic to every armchair aviator around the world.

Thank you, Tom, for the diligent research, thank you for the ebullient prose style, thank you for the chronicling of Americana as you saw it.

Thank you, Tom, and good night.