Norman Mailer
Author
Series
Library of America volume 305
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic masterpieces. War hero, television star, existential hipster,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 306
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the American experiment as well as the threats to it--from autocratic leaders and a complacent citizenry, from violent protest and radical conservative assaults...
9) The fight
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The author tells the tale of a fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaïre, in 1975, for which each fighter was paid five million dollars.