from the nixon years to the pc battles of the early 21st centuries, remembering tom wolf and philip rothh two of the people who knew them well. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. the literary world is mourning the loss in the space of just two weeks of two massive talents, and also a time when gian giants roamed the stage. first, tom wolf who reinvented journalism with major best-sellers like the electric right stuff and whose novels bike bonfire of the vanities established him as america's answer to charles dickens and then philip ross whose complaint revolutionized american literature with his then outrageous take of the goings on of the pubescent boy. over the prolific career like the human stain, american pastoral and prophetically, the plot against america, captured the contradictions and complexities of what he described as indigenous american dessert. the writer, mary carr developed a remarkable and close friendship with philip roth in his later years. she is a memoirist and author of the lions club ask dick cavitt is the

from the nixon years to the pc battles of the early 21st centuries, remembering tom wolf and philip roth the people who knew them well. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. the literary worlds