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A number of Mailer's nonfiction works, such as The Armies of the Night and The Presidential Papers, are political. He covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1992, and 1996, although his account of the 1996 Democratic convention has never been published.
Jan 1, 2014 · For the most part, however, his nonfiction “books” were heavily padded magazine articles that Scott Meredith, his agent, described with brutal candor: “All he does is write these 30,000-word articles for Life and everybody else and then turns them into books. And some of them are good books, but he’s not writing narratives.
Sep 22, 2021 · Analyzes Mailer’s work from The Naked and the Dead through Ancient Evenings, with a focus on Mailer’s reflections on American myth, history, and politics. Highlights recurring themes across Mailer’s work up to the 1980s, including totalitarianism, heroism, existentialism, political bureaucracy, Manichaeism, and more.
Jan 21, 2007 · No political foresight of Mailer’s can surpass the prediction he made in 1962, at the height of the cold war, in a debate with William F. Buckley Jr.: “So let the true war begin.
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won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters; ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century: The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: 1968 miscellany
Abstract: Late in life, Mailer opened a final dialogue with his compatriots when he published two nonfiction books on American politics and democracy— Why Are We at War? and The Big Empty. It is striking how Mailer returns in these late nonfiction works to many of the questions the founding fathers and mothers faced in the eighteenth century.
Oct 11, 2013 · 1. The Executioner’s Song— An immense panoramic nonfiction novel with over 300 characters that recreates the last nine months of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore. Relying heavily on the actual words ...
