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ALSO BY GAIL SHEEHY
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CREDITS
COVER
Cover design by Amanda Kain
Cover photograph © by Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images
TEXT
Excerpt from “Radical Chic” from Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe. Copyright © 1970, renewed 1999 by Tom Wolfe. Reprinted by permission of the author and by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Excerpt from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Copyright © 1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed 1990, 1991 by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart. Used by permission of the James Baldwin Estate.
Excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats. Used courtesy of Simon & Schuster.
Excerpt from “La Dolce Vita” by Barbara Goldsmith. New York magazine. Vol. 1, no. 4. April 19, 1968. Copyright © 1968. Used by permission of Barbara Goldsmith.
IMAGES
Photograph of Gail © Joyce Ravid.
Photograph of Gail and Clay in London © 2014 Bryson Photo.
Photograph of Gail pitching Clay © 2014 the Estate of Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone.
Photograph of Clay ca. 1970 © Burton Berinksy/Landov Media.
Gail’s author shot for “The Amphetamine Explosion” © Dan Wynn/courtesy of Demont Photo Management.
Photograph of the New York magazine “family” © 2014 the Estate of Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone.
Photograph of Tom Wolfe © 2014 the Estate of Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone.
Illustration of the horse race of New Journalists © 2014 Arnold Roth.
“Redpants and Sugarman,” New York magazine cover © New York Media LLC.
“The Midlife Crisis,” New York magazine cover © New York Media LLC.
“Radical Chic,” New York magazine cover © New York Media LLC.
Debut of Ms. magazine inside New York magazine cover © New York Media LLC.
Photograph of Clay announcing the takeover of New York, United Press International.
Photograph of the walkout of New York, United Press International.
Photograph of Gail, Clay, and Maura in Mexico © Elena Prohaska Glinn for the Estate of Burt Glinn.
Photograph of Clay and Gail in evening dress by Bill Cunningham. Photograph courtesy of the author’s private collection.
All other photographs are from the author’s private collection.
COPYRIGHT
Credits section constitutes an extension of this copyright page.
The conversations in the book all come from the author’s recollections and are not written to represent word-for-word transcripts. Rather, the author has retold them in a way that evokes the feeling and meaning of what was said, and in all instances, the essence of the dialogue is correct. The names and identifying characteristics of some of the individuals featured in this book have been changed to protect their privacy.
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