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New York Times critic Paul Berman has hailed The Armies of the Night as a "masterpiece," the first part of a two-volume participant-observer-journalistic portrait of the antiwar movement of the late 1960s—bookended by Miami and the Siege of Chicago (on the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in the summer of 1968.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner) : Mailer, Norman: Amazon.es: Libros
1 de nov. de 2018 · Sinopsis de THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT. 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.
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.
Fifty 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, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.
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.
