Armies of the Night History as a Novel / The Novel as History
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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 <i>The Armies of the Night</i> 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