VDARE Book Club Presents:
The Bonfire of the Vanities—Derek Chauvin IS The Great White Defendant For our May-June choice, the VDARE.com Book Club will be discussing Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Join here before May 7th to be included in our raffle for a First Edition signed copy! Our winner will be announced and discussion questions posted Friday, May 7th.
The morning after the Chauvin conviction, we opened the email bag to find this short note from a friend “Time to read The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
Written in 1987, Tom Wolfe’s novel named the “mania for the Great White Defendant”—the hunt for a white, preferably man (although white women may also qualify), with reckless disregard for evidence or obvious demographic trends...
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