Sublime

Wolfe had been an influential advocate in the 1970s

them. It turned out to be a remarkable book, as a matter of fact, called Hell’s Angels, a Strange and Terrible Saga.

A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, “You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists.” He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America’s most famous authors.

I thought that I was writing a period piece about the 1980s in America, when a great nation lost its financial mind.

In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.