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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History cover

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

Norman Mailer

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#87 of 3,809 books · #25 in History

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1969) and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1969).

The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals—came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s: its myths, heroes, and demons. The Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is a cornerstone of New Journalism, a fascinating foray into that mysterious terrain between novel and history, fiction and nonfiction, and a key chapter in the autobiography of Norman Mailer—who, in this nonfiction novel, becomes his own great character, letting history in all its complexity speak through him.

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Publisher
Odyssey Editions
ISBN-13
9781623730239
Genre
History
Topics
Vietnam War protests1960s countercultureMarch on the Pentagon

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