| Description |
926 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The library of America ; 305 |
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Library of America ; 305.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 893-914) and index. |
| Contents |
An American dream -- Why are we in Vietnam? -- The armies of the night -- Miami and the siege of Chicago. |
| Summary |
No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster, seducer, murderer: such is the protagonist of An American Dream, Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violence. In Why Are We in Vietnam? a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war. The acclaimed "non-fiction novel" The Armies of the Night (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) and its follow-up Miami and the Siege of Chicago are on-the-scene, in-the-scene accounts of an antiwar march on the Pentagon and the party conventions of 1968, as Mailer casts himself as a player in the drama he reports, bringing a sharp and merciless eye on the decade's political upheavals. |
| Subject |
Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.)
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Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Psychology, Pathological -- Fiction.
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Sex addiction -- Fiction.
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Bear hunting -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Fiction.
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Alaska -- Fiction.
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Texas -- Fiction.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
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Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion.
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Nineteen sixties.
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Democratic National Convention. (OCoLC)fst01405894
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Republican National Convention. (OCoLC)fst01405736
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
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Bear hunting. (OCoLC)fst00829262
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Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
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Nineteen sixties. (OCoLC)fst01037817
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Psychology, Pathological. (OCoLC)fst01081609
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Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
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Sex addiction. (OCoLC)fst01114240
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Young men. (OCoLC)fst01183263
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Alaska. (OCoLC)fst01204480
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Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336
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| Chronological Term |
1961-1975
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Psychological fiction.
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| Added Author |
Lennon, Michael, editor.
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Container of (work): Mailer, Norman.
American dream.
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Container of (work): Mailer, Norman.
Why are we in Vietnam?
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Container of (work): Mailer, Norman.
Armies of the night.
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Container of (work): Mailer, Norman.
Miami and the siege of Chicago.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 2018
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Four books of the 1960s |
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Four books of the nineteen sixties |
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4 books of the nineteen sixties |
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American dream.
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Why are we in Vietnam?
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Armies of night.
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Miami and the siege of Chicago.
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Norman Mailer : the 1960s collection
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| ISBN |
9781598535587 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1598535587 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
