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Much of The Armies of the Night (save for "Battle of the Pentagon," the book's 25,000-word epilogue) was published in the March 1968 issue of Harper's as "The Steps of the Pentagon."Initially contracted to write a 20,000-word article on his experiences (culminating in a civil disobedience arrest) at the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon following a rally by the National Mobilization ...
The Armies of the Night recounts the events surrounding the 1967 march on the Pentagon, a protest against the Vietnam War. The book blurs the lines between autobiography, history, and fiction, offering a detailed account of the protest and Norman Mailer’s personal experiences and reflections on the event.
15 de oct. de 2013 · 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 ...
He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize. October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters 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 Norman Mailer.
11 de jul. de 2018 · “The Armies of the Night” is not a journalistic account of a protest so much as a satiric poem of fathers and sons. It tells of how one generation of American radicals confronted and comically ...
1 de ene. de 1995 · Praise for The Armies of the Night “His genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render The Armies of the Night an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature.”—Time “Only a writer steeped in American life, with all his wits about him, and with a genuinely compassionate social vision, could have produced a work so acute in its ...
15 de oct. de 2013 · 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 ...
