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Tom Wolfe, a Rare card
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. 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.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Tom Wolfe quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tom Wolfe card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the ____s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
Answer
1960s. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City. From the Tom Wolfe article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Malleus Maleficarum. Malleus Maleficarum 83 · Tom Wolfe 79 · Ecclesiastes 76 · Benny Hinn 73 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
- Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
- In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tom Wolfe article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Tom Wolfe
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tom Wolfe (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MoSchle, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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