Norman Mailer: The Armies of the Night

History As a Novel/the Novel As History The story of a weekend. Not your average kind. But the one October 1967, when tens of thousands demonstrated at the Pentagon. It is both an insider and outsider’s view, because Mailer rights about himself in third person. But he was very much part of the action. This is reportage, analysis, investigative reporting, history, poetry, portrait series at the same time. And as a combination a zeitgeist speedometer. If you are interested in how people lived through the event this is one you won’t be able to put down. I couldn’t.

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