Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
Only a born novelist could have written a piece of history so
intelligent, mischievous, penetrating and alive
*The New York Times Book Review*
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*
Mesmerising, and to re-read it today is to experience an additional
punch: the one that verifies that history repeats itself as
(malignant) farce
*Guardian*
A work of personal and political reportage that brings to the inner
and developing crisis of the United States at this moment admirable
sensibilities, candid intelligence, the most moving concern for
America itself. Mailer's intuition in this book is that the times
demand a new form. He has found it
*New York Times*
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