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The Armies of the Night : History As a Novel/the Novel As History by Norman Mailer
Category: Interior Design
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, particip ...Show more
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. From his own singular participation in the ...Show more
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Category: Fiction
Who was Adolf Hitler? That's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer set ...Show more
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Category: Fiction
Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
* A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Category: History | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Magnum Collection
In 1975, at the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Bo ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Category: Sport
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible professor of boxing. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator ...Show more
The Fight - George Foreman v Muhammad Ali by Norman Mailer et al
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The Fight (Popular Penguin) by Norman Mailer
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za re, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing." The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentato ...Show more