The Armies of the Night
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
With a Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer's seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America's two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely…
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Wow. Not even sure where to begin with this Normal Mailer book, winner of both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1969. I have been working on an historical fiction novel, and I needed some reference books relating to the Pentagon Protest of the 1960s. Mailer was there. Not only was he in attendance, he was arrested on the Pentagon steps, though he knew in advance that he would be. That's the reason he went to the protest: If his name got into the papers, along with Abbie Hoffman and other liberal influencers of the era, then maybe…
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