The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
Written by Norman Mailer
Narrated by Scott Brick
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s: its myths, heroes, and demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a cornerstone of New Journalism, The Armies of the Night is not only a fascinating foray into that mysterious terrain between novel and history, fiction and nonfiction, but also a key chapter in the autobiography of Norman Mailer—who, in this nonfiction novel, becomes his own great character, letting history in all its complexity speak through him.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gives one writer's perspective on the Vietnam War and how it tore our country apart. Provides details of several anti-war protests that Mailer attended.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I enjoyed the book. Mailer? A walking, talking Ego that dominated the literary scene in America for far too long.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This book to me had a lot of potential, but I just could not get into it. It was very dry. History doesn't have to be dry and yet this book was like the Sahara Desert to me.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 years later, knowing what we know now, it loses much of its currency. Still a good read.