LoginThe Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
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One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
Armies of the Night centers on the March on the Pentagon, the most famous anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington DC, and the characters that occupy this opposition––the intellectuals, students, African Americans, liberals, and marching women. Mailer, a novelist-as-character, sculpts this impressionably fragile world of the Left versus Authority and Peace versus War, prodding at the Vietnam generation’s deepest anxieties.
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Manufacturer: Plume
Release date: 1 January 1995
ISBN-10 : 0452272793 | ISBN-13: 9780452272798
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Release date: 1 January 1995
ISBN-10 : 0452272793 | ISBN-13: 9780452272798
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Keaster added this to a list 3 years, 3 months ago
Read in '21 (37 books items)"Norman Mailer was an interesting personage. At times a horrible and repulsive egoist (check out his interview in the Dick Cavett Show with Gore Vidal from '71 for example), while at his best, as he is here in his much lauded Armies of the Night, an extremely intelligent writer with a keen observational eye and a capability for seeing and understanding every side of a complex situation with lots of factors simultaneously in effect. His sense of humor and self-irony are hilarious, as is his decis"
Keaster rated this 7/10 3 years, 3 months ago