{"product_id":"the-armies-of-the-night-isbn-9780452272798","title":"The Armies of the Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWith a Introduction by Adam Gopnik\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors 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 a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“[Mailer’s] genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature.”—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Only a born novelist could have written a piece of history so intelligent, mischievous, penetrating and alive.”—Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature.”—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 historical insights and so moving in its portraits of contemporaries.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Some time in 1969 in Paris, I first read \u003ci\u003eArmies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Norman Mailer's account of the anti-Vietnam war march on the Pentagon...It was mesmerising, and to re-read it today is to experience an additional punch: the one that verifies that history repeats itself as (malignant) farce. Page after page you have the impression that he is commenting not on Lyndon Johnson's shameful war, but George Bush's corporate-powered skulking towards another self-serving war… supports the theory—more resonant now than then—that perhaps the most ruthless and prolonged jihad in history has been that of the American fundamentalist Christians, which began towards the end of the second world war.”—Peter Lennon, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Just as brilliant a personal testimony as Whitman's diary of the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eSpecimen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and Whitman's great essay on the crisis of the Republic during the Gilded Age, \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Vistas\u003c\/i\u003e. I believe that it is 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.”—Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Mailer's feints and bell-donging around his fellow ‘Notables’ is a late night popcorn joy, and there is much that is stylish and shrewd...this is an important and passionate pilgrimage.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, \u003cb\u003eNorman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. \u003ci\u003eThe Castle in the Forest,\u003c\/i\u003e his last novel, was his eleventh \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Naked and the Dead, \u003c\/i\u003ehas never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night,\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for\u003ci\u003eThe Executioner’s Song\u003c\/i\u003e and is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. He died in 2007 in New York City.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302128865509,"sku":"NP9780452272798","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452272798.jpg?v=1767738127","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-armies-of-the-night-isbn-9780452272798","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}