A towering genius at the height of his powers, Norman Mailer threw himself into the events of 21 October 1967 — the great march on Washington in which between 20,000 and 200,000 protesters converged on the Pentagon to demand an end to the war in Vietnam. Federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets waited on the Pentagon steps as helicopters circled overhead. Out of his singular experience of that day, and the extraordinary acuity of his perceptions, Mailer forged a work that shattered the conventions of traditional reportage entirely. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd these pages, where documented fact fuses with the techniques of fiction to capture the nerve-end reality of lived truth. The Armies of the Night remains an unforgettable portrait of the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its absolute crest.
ISBN 13: 9780241340479
Author: Norman Mailer
