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Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s (Loa #306)

Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s (Loa #306)

Mailer, Norman
Lennon, J. Michael

Hardcover

Series: Library of America Norman Mailer Edition, Book 2

Letters & Essays20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1598535595
ISBN13: 9781598535594
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Mar 27 2018
Pages: 525
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative best

The electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time by acclaimed Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon, are all the essential essays from the classic collections The Presidential Papers (1963), Cannibals and Christians (1966), and Existential Errands (1972), each a fascinating window on one of the most extraordinary and tumultuous decades in the nation's history. A self-appointed exorcist of the culture's demons and an unrestrained mythologizer of his own identity, Mailer contemplated and often skewered icons of politics and literature, charted psychosexual undercurrents and covert power plays, and gloried in the exercise of a pugnacious prose style that was all his own. Whether writing about Jackie Kennedy or Sonny Liston, the realist tradition in America or the internal culture wars of the Republican Party, the death of Ernest Hemingway or the battle against censorship, Mailer was always ready to intervene in what he called the years of the plague.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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