The Bonfire of the Vanities Links

Bonfire of the Vanities on tomwolfe.com

http://www.tomwolfe.com/Bonfire.html

An overview of the book. This site contains a biography of Tom Wolfe, and information on his other books.

Article on Savonarola

http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/02/daily-02-07-2003.shtml

This article on Savonarola by the Church History Institute has a Christian slant, but provides a good overview of the history and context of the bonfires of the vanities in Florence.

Steam Control by Elizabeth Wright

http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/5000/article/2100

Interesting and excellent review of Bonfire of the Vanities on an African-American intellectual and political website.

UTA article about Bonfire film

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/vogel22.htm

University of Texas at Austin's Tarlton Library's review of the Bonfire of the Vanities film. This has an interesting view of how race and ethnicity are handled in the legal system that also applies to what was written in the book. This article contains a very apt skewering of Wolfe's social conservatism and badly concealed anti-Semitism.