The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
of Norman Mailer
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardFifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailerâs seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of Americaâs two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixtiesâ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak. The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the dayâs events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 304 pages
- Publisher Plume Books
- Publication Date January 1st 1995
- First Publication January 1st 1968
- Language English
- ISBN 9780452272798
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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