{"product_id":"the-armies-of-the-night-history-as-a-novel-the-novel-as-history-9780452272798","title":"The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFifty 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties' tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors 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 a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day's events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\" Mailer's] genuine wit and bellicose charm, and his fervent and intense sense of legitimately caring, render \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e an artful document, worthy to be judged as literature.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Only a born novelist could have written a piece of history so intelligent, mischievous, penetrating and alive.\"--Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Plume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780452272798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/23\/2007 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/26\/2007 pg. 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/24\/2008 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Norman Mailer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067619377333,"sku":"9780452272798","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_72370b58-17df-4d6c-bf6e-50ae5d5dac4b.jpg?v=1690861585","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-armies-of-the-night-history-as-a-novel-the-novel-as-history-9780452272798","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}