What social critic and bestselling author coined the phrase “radical chic”?

Question

to describe well-to-do folks dressing like hippies?

Answer 1

That author is Tom Wolfe. The full title is "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers", published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1970 .

For more information, see the site below.

http://www.tomwolfe.com/RadicalChic.html

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Answer 2

Tom Wolfe
"The phrase radical chic was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongrous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment"
http://www.amazon.com/radical-chic-mau-m...

Answer 3

TOM WOLFE WORKS FOR THE RADIO TRIVIA!!!!!!!