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Sometimes, practitioners of the genre can rise above its limitations; but you can count on two fingers the number of books that have migrated from the business-aisle ghetto to the mainstream: Barbarians at the Gate and Den of Thieves . Barbarians succeeded because its writers, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, weren't seduced by the power of its subjects.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
Wolfe's suburbanites have sympathy for unwed ghetto mothers, believe in giving people a second chance, and know that the safety net is a moral, not just a practical, necessity.
One former chancellor dropped to his knees in a Warsaw ghetto in symbolic atonement.
Chatterbox thinks it's the key to successful welfare reform (which is the key to solving America's most pressing social problem, the problem of "ghetto poverty").