A new edition of Wofle's masterpiece of the late 1990s, with a new jacket to tie in with }The Bonfire Of The Vanities{ and the rest of his backlist A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom WolfeCharlie Croker, once a fabled college football star, is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned conglomerate king.