New York, NY: Signet, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Y3712. Collectible. Norman Mailer took part in the October 1967 anti-Vietnam march to the Pentagon and was arrested. After his release, he came home to write about the anger, the hangovers, the obscentities, the gurus, the hippies, the bewildered young MP's, the dead-eyed marshals, poets, chaplains, draft-card burners, the walls of the Pentagon and himself. History as a novel and the novel as history. First time in paperback. 320 pages. Heavy rubbing on top and bottom of spine and top right corner tip of front cover. Spine is creased..

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The Armies of the Night (1968) is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention. 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.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 3621
Title: The Armies of the Night
Author: Mailer, Norman
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New York, NY: Signet, 1968
Keywords: COLLECTIBLE VINTAGE HISTORICAL VIETNAM WAR PROTEST MOVEMENT; FICTION - VIETNAM, COUNTER CULTURE, HIPPIE, ANTI-WAR, PEACE MARCH
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