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Norman Mailer
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History.
The New American Library, 1968. First printing. 288 pages
This volume is bound in black cloth, with red and white lettering to spine. Book, with map endpapers, shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and without markings. Intact dust jacket, with $5.95 on front flap, is well preserved in mylar cover. Photo of demonstration appears in upper half of rear panel, featuring Marus Raskin, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Sidney Lens, and Dwight MacDonald.
This work "chronicles the author's adventures over the four days of the October 1967 anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Washington, and then returns to the same ground for an objective history of the battle of the Pentagon, establishing in the process a fascinating entrance into that mysterious  unexplored land between the material of a novel and the material of a history."

The Armies of the Night

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