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Stacked in the vaults of the New York Public Library’s grand main building at 42nd Street in Manhattan are 236 boxes detailing the personal and professional life of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated chroniclers of American society. It’s fitting that Tom Wolfe’s archive is housed in the heart of New York City; with The Bonfire of the Vanities, he wrote the definitive book on the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street’s masters of the universe—a Wolfe coinage—rose to dominate the economy and pop culture.
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