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An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T01:25:14Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: final changes

DATE OF REVIEW - 3/22/1965

[[65.7|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]
By Norman Mailer
Publisher - Dial Press, 1965

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SCENE: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam.
<blockquote>Tent is lit by a gasoline lantern. (First) Soldier is sitting on Cot, writing letter. (Second) Soldier enters tent & sits on another cot, Reads ''An American Dream'' for a minute, then speaks.</blockquote>
(First soldier looks old enough to have children. Second soldier can be younger.)

<p>2nd Soldier: "Who you writing to?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Judy and the kids. Watcha reading?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "New novel by Norman Mailer, the guy that wrote ''The Naked and the Dead''. You read that?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "I read it twice. Good book. Old Mailer knew the army all right. This new thing any good?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "I don't know for sure. I'm about halfway through it, and I can't figure out what he's trying to say</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "What's he call it? Is it as rugged as ''The Naked and the Dead''?"</p>

<blockquote>2nd Solider holds book up so first soldier can see cover and camera can show it.</blockquote>

<p>2nd Soldier: "Dad you know it. It's called ''An American Dream'', and it's pretty wild in spots. My girl friend sent it to me, and I don't know if she read it, but there's some parts I'd just as soon she skip."</p>

<blockquote>Second Soldier Tosses book to first</blockquote>

<p>1st Soldier: "Let's see it a minute." "What does the dust jacket say?"
(1st Soldier Quotes From Jacket Blurb)</p>

(As second soldier listens, he can nod agreement now and then.)

"The hero of ''An American Dream'' is Stephen Richards Rojack, a war hero, college professor, television performer and the husband of an immensely wealthy girl."
Page 2
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "You read that very well."

<p>(1st Soldier continues after shrugging off comment)
"The time of the novel is 32 hours. In those 32 hours Rojack journeys through every imaginable evil, and some all but unimaginable pleasures--an existential pilgrimage of great peril, of profound suspense."</p>
<p>(2nd Soldier, Interrupting Again:)
"I don't know about that suspense jazz."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)</p>
"The milieu of ''An American Dream'' is New York City -- the night-time of plush East Side duplex apartments.
<p>2nd Soldier: "I'd rather be there than here."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)
"of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs, of Lower East Side tenements... Onto this environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination
creating a classic world of action and horror that takes on the dimensions of an American myth." "This doesn't sound so confusing. What do you mean,
you don't know what it's about?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "What I mean, old buddy, is I know what Mailer wrote. I just don't know what he's trying to get at."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, should I read it or not?"</p>
Page 3
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "Lemme put it this way, Dad. I wouldn't recommend it for my mother 'cause she'd give me you-know-what for reading a dirty book. You remember that part of the jacket you read where it said the hero is a television performer? Well, he's even more of a bedroom performer, so I guess that lets out anybody who gets shocked easy. When you come right down to it, I'd say I'm about the only person I know who's worldly enough to read it without getting all shook up."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, I'm older than you, and I'm twice as worldly. Just you let me read it, and I'll tell ''you'' what it's all about. OK?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "Good Luck, Frank Buck."</p>

'' # # # # # # # # # #''
Review written by Donald M. Boucher

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An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T01:23:52Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T01:23:02Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: update center words

An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T01:18:03Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: center

DATE OF REVIEW - 3/22/1965

[[65.7|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]
By Norman Mailer
Publisher - Dial Press, 1965

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scene: An American Dream Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965}}
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SCENE: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam.
<blockquote>Tent is lit by a gasoline lantern. (First) Soldier is sitting on Cot, writing letter. (Second) Soldier enters tent & sits on another cot, Reads ''An American Dream'' for a minute, then speaks.</blockquote>
(First soldier looks old enough to have children. Second soldier can be younger.)

<p>2nd Soldier: "Who you writing to?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Judy and the kids. Watcha reading?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "New novel by Norman Mailer, the guy that wrote ''The Naked and the Dead''. You read that?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "I read it twice. Good book. Old Mailer knew the army all right. This new thing any good?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "I don't know for sure. I'm about halfway through it, and I can't figure out what he's trying to say</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "What's he call it? Is it as rugged as ''The Naked and the Dead''?"</p>

<blockquote>2nd Solider holds book up so first soldier can see cover and camera can show it.</blockquote>

<p>2nd Soldier: "Dad you know it. It's called ''An American Dream'', and it's pretty wild in spots. My girl friend sent it to me, and I don't know if she read it, but there's some parts I'd just as soon she skip."</p>

<blockquote>Second Soldier Tosses book to first</blockquote>

<p>1st Soldier: "Let's see it a minute." "What does the dust jacket say?"
(1st Soldier Quotes From Jacket Blurb)</p>

(As second soldier listens, he can nod agreement now and then.)

"The hero of ''An American Dream'' is Stephen Richards Rojack, a war hero, college professor, television performer and the husband of an immensely wealthy girl."
Page 2
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "You read that very well."

<p>(1st Soldier continues after shrugging off comment)
"The time of the novel is 32 hours. In those 32 hours Rojack journeys through every imaginable evil, and some all but unimaginable pleasures--an existential pilgrimage of great peril, of profound suspense."</p>
<p>(2nd Soldier, Interrupting Again:)
"I don't know about that suspense jazz."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)</p>
"The milieu of ''An American Dream'' is New York City -- the night-time of plush East Side duplex apartments.
<p>2nd Soldier: "I'd rather be there than here."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)
"of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs, of Lower East Side tenements... Onto this environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination
creating a classic world of action and horror that takes on the dimensions of an American myth." "This doesn't sound so confusing. What do you mean,
you don't know what it's about?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "What I mean, old buddy, is I know what Mailer wrote. I just don't know what he's trying to get at."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, should I read it or not?"</p>
Page 3
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "Lemme put it this way, Dad. I wouldn't recommend it for my mother 'cause she'd give me you-know-what for reading a dirty book. You remember that part of the jacket you read where it said the hero is a television performer? Well, he's even more of a bedroom performer, so I guess that lets out anybody who gets shocked easy. When you come right down to it, I'd say I'm about the only person I know who's worldly enough to read it without getting all shook up."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, I'm older than you, and I'm twice as worldly. Just you let me read it, and I'll tell ''you'' what it's all about. OK?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "Good Luck, Frank Buck."</p>

'' # # # # # # # # # #''
Review written by Donald M. Boucher

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An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T00:53:27Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: add transcript

DATE OF REVIEW - 3/22/1965

<blockquote>AN AMERICAN DREAM
By Norman Mailer
Publisher - Dial Press, 1965</blockquote>
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scene: An American Dream Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965}}
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SCENE: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam.
<blockquote>Tent is lit by a gasoline lantern. (First) Soldier is sitting on Cot, writing letter. (Second) Soldier enters tent & sits on another cot, Reads ''An American Dream'' for a minute, then speaks.</blockquote>
(First soldier looks old enough to have children. Second soldier can be younger.)

<p>2nd Soldier: "Who you writing to?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Judy and the kids. Watcha reading?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "New novel by Norman Mailer, the guy that wrote ''The Naked and the Dead''. You read that?"</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "I read it twice. Good book. Old Mailer knew the army all right. This new thing any good?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "I don't know for sure. I'm about halfway through it, and I can't figure out what he's trying to say</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "What's he call it? Is it as rugged as ''The Naked and the Dead''?"</p>

<blockquote>2nd Solider holds book up so first soldier can see cover and camera can show it.</blockquote>

<p>2nd Soldier: "Dad you know it. It's called ''An American Dream'', and it's pretty wild in spots. My girl friend sent it to me, and I don't know if she read it, but there's some parts I'd just as soon she skip."</p>

<blockquote>Second Soldier Tosses book to first</blockquote>

<p>1st Soldier: "Let's see it a minute." "What does the dust jacket say?"
(1st Soldier Quotes From Jacket Blurb)</p>

(As second soldier listens, he can nod agreement now and then.)

"The hero of ''An American Dream'' is Stephen Richards Rojack, a war hero, college professor, television performer and the husband of an immensely wealthy girl."
Page 2
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "You read that very well."

<p>(1st Soldier continues after shrugging off comment)
"The time of the novel is 32 hours. In those 32 hours Rojack journeys through every imaginable evil, and some all but unimaginable pleasures--an existential pilgrimage of great peril, of profound suspense."</p>
<p>(2nd Soldier, Interrupting Again:)
"I don't know about that suspense jazz."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)</p>
"The milieu of ''An American Dream'' is New York City -- the night-time of plush East Side duplex apartments.
<p>2nd Soldier: "I'd rather be there than here."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: (Continues)
"of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs, of Lower East Side tenements... Onto this environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination
creating a classic world of action and horror that takes on the dimensions of an American myth." "This doesn't sound so confusing. What do you mean,
you don't know what it's about?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "What I mean, old buddy, is I know what Mailer wrote. I just don't know what he's trying to get at."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, should I read it or not?"</p>
Page 3
''An American Dream''

<p>2nd Soldier: "Lemme put it this way, Dad. I wouldn't recommend it for my mother 'cause she'd give me you-know-what for reading a dirty book. You remember that part of the jacket you read where it said the hero is a television performer? Well, he's even more of a bedroom performer, so I guess that lets out anybody who gets shocked easy. When you come right down to it, I'd say I'm about the only person I know who's worldly enough to read it without getting all shook up."</p>
<p>1st Soldier: "Well, I'm older than you, and I'm twice as worldly. Just you let me read it, and I'll tell ''you'' what it's all about. OK?"</p>
<p>2nd Soldier: "Good Luck, Frank Buck."</p>

'' # # # # # # # # # #''
Review written by Donald M. Boucher

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An American Dream-Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam

2019-04-23T19:49:42Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: update page info

DATE OF REVIEW - 3/22/1965

AN AMERICAN DREAM
By Norman Mailer
Publisher - Dial Press, 1965

SCENE: Inside an Army Tent in
Vietnam. Tent is lit by
a gasoline lantern. (First)
Soldier is sitting on Cot,
writing letter. (Second)
Soldier enters tent & sits
on another cot, Reads ''An
American Dream'' for a minute,
then speaks.
(First soldier looks old enough
to have children. Second soldier
can be younger.)

2nd Soldier: "Who you writing to?"
1st Soldier: "Judy and the kids. Watcha reading?"
2nd Soldier: "New novel by Norman Mailer, the guy that wrote
''The Naked and the Dead''. You read that?"
1st Soldier: "I read it twice. Good book. Old Mailer knew the
the army all right. This new thing any good?"
2nd Soldier: "I don't know for sure. I'm about halfway through
it, and I can't figure out what he's trying to say
1st Soldier: "What's he call it? Is it as rugged as ''The Naked and the Dead''?"

2nd Solder holds book up
so first soldier can see 2nd Soldier: "Dad you know it. It's called ''An American Dream'',
cover and camera can show it. and it's pretty wild in spots. My girl friend sent
it to me, and I don't know if she read it, but
there's some parts I'd just as soon she skip."
1st Soldier: "Let's see it a minute."
Second Soldier Tosses "What does the dust jacket say?"
book to first. (1st Soldier Quotes From Jacket Blurb)

(As second soldier listens, "The hero of ''An American Dream'' is Stephen
he can nod agreement now Richards Rojack, a war hero, college
and then.) professor, television performer and the
husband of an immensely wealthy girl."

''An American Dream'' Page 2

2nd Soldier: "You read that very well."
(1st Soldier continues after shrugging off comment)
"The time of the novel is 32 hours. In those
32 hours Rojack journeys through every imaginable
evil, and some all but unimaginable pleasures--
an existential pilgrimage of great peril, of
profound suspense."
(2nd Soldier, Interrupting Again:)
"I don't know about that suspense jazz."
1st Soldier: (Continues)
"The milieu of ''An American Dream'' is New York City --
the night-time of plush East Side duplex apartments.
2nd Soldier: "I'd rather be there than here."
1st Soldier: (Continues)
"of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs,
of Lower East Side tenements... Onto this
environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination
creating a classic world of action and horror that
takes on the dimensions of an American myth."
"This doesn't sound so confusing. What do you mean,
you don't know what it's about?"
2nd Soldier: "What I mean, old buddy, is I know what Mailer wrote.
I just don't know what he's trying to get at."
1st Soldier: "Well, should I read it or not?"
Page 3
''An American Dream''

2nd Soldier: "Lemme put it this way, Dad. I wouldn't recommend
it for my mother 'cause she'd give me you-know-
what for reading a dirty book. You remember that
part of the jacket you read where it said the
hero is a television performer? Well, he's even
more of a bedroom performer, so I guess that lets
out anybody who gets shocked easy. When you come
right down to it, I'd say I'm about the only
person I know who's worldly enough to read it
without getting all shook up."
1st Soldier: "Well, I'm older than you, and I'm twice as
worldly. Just you let me read it, and I'll tell
''you'' what it's all about. OK?"
2nd Soldier: "Good Luck, Frank Buck."

'' # # # # # # # # # #''

Review written by Donald M. Boucher

An American Dream-Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam

2019-04-23T14:19:36Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: update

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-23T13:08:01Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery Clean-up 2 */ reply

Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
. . .
{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Advertising Copy]]
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
. . .
{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Advertising Copy]]
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great as one. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-22T22:55:16Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery Clean-Up */

Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
. . .
{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Advertising Copy]]
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-22T22:37:14Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: reply

{{reply to|grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if it's correct. I updated the Works cited citations. I also tried to make sure I removed all HTML citation coding. Please let me know if I am missing anything. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 23:18, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} It's looking good. Citations need to use citation codes for [[w:Template:Cite book|books]], etc. There should be no space between the end of the word and the footnote. “---” needs to be replaced with “Mailer.” If you correct these issues, I can give it a better proofing. Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} I think it has come together nicely. All changes have been completed. Thank You. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 22:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Better and better. All of the works cited entries need to be coded still. Are you working on that? (I’ll do one to start you out.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:18, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|grlucas}} Please do because I'm starting to think that I'm not sure that I fully understand this anymore.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 11:26, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} OK, I helped out a bit. You started coding the refs; you just need to finish it. If you have questions, I’m here! You got this. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:40, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes. I believe I have fully completed it this time. Please let me know. Thank You and have a great day.
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} At first glance, it looks darn good. 👍🏼 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:38, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}}WooooHoooo. Thank You very much.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:37, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T20:57:06Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery Clean-Up */

Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
. . .
{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T20:46:46Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T18:04:27Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
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|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 1 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 2.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 2 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 3.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 3 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 4.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 4 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 5 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 6 of 6
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 3 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism.
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965.
|File:19650130.jpg|Tom Wolfe’s review of ''AAD'' is mentioned in ''Book Week'' on March 14, 1965.
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
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|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter.
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T16:48:21Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: Add link

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|''[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QXBCjRiMkji4cNc-GhmB3eC2DbEuQx35 Publishers Weekly]'' March 22, 1965 page 1 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 2.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 2 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 3.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 3 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 4.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 4 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 5 of 6
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|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 3 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
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|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism.
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965.
|File:19650130.jpg|Tom Wolfe’s review of ''AAD'' is mentioned in ''Book Week'' on March 14, 1965.
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==Letters==
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|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter.
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== Reviews ==
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|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
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Talk:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T16:20:29Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

{{reply to|grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if it's correct. I updated the Works cited citations. I also tried to make sure I removed all HTML citation coding. Please let me know if I am missing anything. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 23:18, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} It's looking good. Citations need to use citation codes for [[w:Template:Cite book|books]], etc. There should be no space between the end of the word and the footnote. “---” needs to be replaced with “Mailer.” If you correct these issues, I can give it a better proofing. Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} I think it has come together nicely. All changes have been completed. Thank You. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 22:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Better and better. All of the works cited entries need to be coded still. Are you working on that? (I’ll do one to start you out.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:18, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|grlucas}} Please do because I'm starting to think that I'm not sure that I fully understand this anymore.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 11:26, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} OK, I helped out a bit. You started coding the refs; you just need to finish it. If you have questions, I’m here! You got this. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:40, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes. I believe I have fully completed it this time. Please let me know. Thank You and have a great day. I am not going to try to work on the multi page images I have in the gallery on the "An American Dream" page.

Talk:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T16:19:44Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: Update

{{reply to|grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, Can you please take a look at this page and let me know if it's correct. I updated the Works cited citations. I also tried to make sure I removed all HTML citation coding. Please let me know if I am missing anything. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 23:18, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} It's looking good. Citations need to use citation codes for [[w:Template:Cite book|books]], etc. There should be no space between the end of the word and the footnote. “---” needs to be replaced with “Mailer.” If you correct these issues, I can give it a better proofing. Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:11, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} I think it has come together nicely. All changes have been completed. Thank You. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 22:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Better and better. All of the works cited entries need to be coded still. Are you working on that? (I’ll do one to start you out.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:18, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|grlucas}} Please do because I'm starting to think that I'm not sure that I fully understand this anymore.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 11:26, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} OK, I helped out a bit. You started coding the refs; you just need to finish it. If you have questions, I’m here! You got this. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:40, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes. I believe I have fully completed it this time. Please let me know. Thank You and have a great day. I am not going to try to work on the multi page images I have in the gallery on the "An American Dream" page.

Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T16:15:52Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: update citations

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}}
{{byline|last=Leeds|first=Barry H.}}

{{notice|From an unpublished essay, reprinted here with the permission of the author’s estate.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese’s penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta’s boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer’s vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: “A boxer? I don’t like boxing . . . The idea . . . was something I didn’t—couldn’t—grasp.”{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled “Death” in ''The Presidential Papers'',{{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill''{{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight''{{sfn|Mailer|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer’s vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream''{{sfn|Mailer|1965}} and ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find “the reward of the ring”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike “Romeo” Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it’s difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer’s biographers to date,{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}{{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says “Tough writers ''can'' fight,”{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke’s on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when “a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta.”{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don’t know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ’. . . It’s goin’ tough.’ Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''—it had just been released—and he cracked, ’Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.’{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer’s date home: according to Beverly, “I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed.”{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who “had a very bad reputation in the ring”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=93}} tells Cherry, “They’re going to make a movie of my life” {{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: “Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. . . . It’s the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads.”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=101}} He concludes, “If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie.”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack’s tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack’s quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack’s refusal to retreat before Romeo’s crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer’s vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro . . . have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence . . . Yet Jake is conscious of the “bad things” he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with . . . women seem marked with a gratuitous brutality—for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film’s end, Jake, shouting “I am not an animal!” in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), “faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins . . . A man recognizes his own soul.”{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese’s vision of regeneration and Mailer’s lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists’ relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a “prep-school bully,” a “wrestler,” a “gladiator.”{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie’s pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, “Vickie La Motta had something special . . . she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, ’I’m beautiful, I’m happy, life is joyous . . . “’.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, “She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes . . . She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... “.{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake’s attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack’s continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry’s ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, “I don’t hate. Never . . . Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck.” {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film’s later scenes, the retired and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State’s Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, “You could charge five bucks for those kisses.”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: “In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think—with his brother, his wife . . . he’s sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it.”{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta’s story, like Rojack’s, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake’s venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni’s ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer’s protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer’s work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

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==Works Cited==
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* {{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Mary Pat |date=1991 |chapter=Blood on the Ropes |title=Martin Scorsese: a Journey |location=New York |publisher=Thunder’s Mouth |page=119-150 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1965 |title=An American Dream |location=New York |publisher=Dell |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1963 |chapter=Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute |title=The Presidential Papers |location=New York |publisher=Putnam’s |page=213-267 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1975 |title=The Fight |location=Boston |publisher=Little |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1971 |title="King of the Hill". Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt. as King of the Hill |location=New York |publisher=NAL |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1984 |title=Tough Guys Don't Dance |location=New York |publisher=Random |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Manso |first=Peter |date=1985 |title=Mailer: His Life and Times |location=New York |publisher=Simon |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Mills |first=Hilary |date=1982 |title=Mailer: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=Empire |ref=harv}}
* {{cite book |last=Rollyson |first=Carl |date=1991 |title=The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=Paragon |ref=harv}}
* {{cite news |last=Scorsese |first=Martin |date=1980 |title=Raging Bull |publisher=United Artists |ref=harv}}

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Talk:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

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An American Dream Expanded

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Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ add Publisher Weekly Files

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

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|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
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|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 1 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 2.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 2 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 3.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 3 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 4.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 4 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 5 of 6
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965 page 6 of 6
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 3 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T15:09:02Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ add file

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965 page 1 of 6
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 3 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-21T15:05:31Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: assign

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly</s> I will do this one [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 11:05, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650418 Best Sellers
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
* Secure permissions for essays.
* Post full-text essays.
* Secure permissions for reviews.
* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-21T14:53:35Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650322 Publishers Weekly
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650418 Best Sellers
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
* Secure permissions for essays.
* Post full-text essays.
* Secure permissions for reviews.
* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-21T14:50:35Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650322 Publishers Weekly I will do this one [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 10:44, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650418 Best Sellers
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
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* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

File:19650418 Best Sellers.JPG

2019-04-21T14:49:39Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: Best Sellers List

== Summary ==
Best Sellers List

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-21T14:44:15Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: assign uploads

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650322 Publishers Weekly I will do this one [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 10:44, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650418 Best Sellers I will do this one [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 10:44, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
* Secure permissions for essays.
* Post full-text essays.
* Secure permissions for reviews.
* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-21T14:39:17Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: strike out title

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650322 Publishers Weekly
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:# 19650418 Best Sellers
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
* Secure permissions for essays.
* Post full-text essays.
* Secure permissions for reviews.
* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Working on Dana, North American Review JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# Nichols-NYT -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones

2019-04-21T14:36:17Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Photo Upload */

== Bio ==

Your bio should be added to [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|your user page]], not the main page of the site. I had to remove that edit. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 12:19, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

== Word Count Comparison ==

You crossed this off the Letters to-do list, but it is not complete. Are you working on it? Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:49, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

== Leeds' Essay ==

I finally received permission for you to post the Leeds’ essay. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 13:20, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

== Signature ==

How are you signing your posts? The user “ssimsjones” does not exist. Are you doing that manually? Please use <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. This symbol can be found to the left of your 1 key — type it four times in a row and it makes your signature for you. OR you can just click the signature button (the little squiggly one to the right of the '''B''' ''I'' in the formatting bar above). —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 08:02, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

==Photo Upload==
{{reply to|grlucas}} I received a forbidden error message telling me I didn't have permission to post the Harper's Plan anthology and there's SOI parts I'd just as soon she skip images. Should I contact the helpdesk? I have the image saved and when I try to upload it, it gives me the error. For some reason, it did not give me this problem with the John Braine Image. "It says "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pm/Special:Upload on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 21:28, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} What's the name of the file? Sometimes that happens when file names contain odd characters (it has something to do with security). Try renaming the file to something simple. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:05, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} renaming them worked. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 10:35, 21 April 2019 (EDT)

User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones

2019-04-21T14:35:50Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Photo Upload */ reply

== Bio ==

Your bio should be added to [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|your user page]], not the main page of the site. I had to remove that edit. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 12:19, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

== Word Count Comparison ==

You crossed this off the Letters to-do list, but it is not complete. Are you working on it? Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:49, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

== Leeds' Essay ==

I finally received permission for you to post the Leeds’ essay. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 13:20, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

== Signature ==

How are you signing your posts? The user “ssimsjones” does not exist. Are you doing that manually? Please use <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. This symbol can be found to the left of your 1 key — type it four times in a row and it makes your signature for you. OR you can just click the signature button (the little squiggly one to the right of the '''B''' ''I'' in the formatting bar above). —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 08:02, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

==Photo Upload==
{{reply to|grlucas}} I received a forbidden error message telling me I didn't have permission to post the Harper's Plan anthology and there's SOI parts I'd just as soon she skip images. Should I contact the helpdesk? I have the image saved and when I try to upload it, it gives me the error. For some reason, it did not give me this problem with the John Braine Image. "It says "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pm/Special:Upload on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 21:28, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Sherita Sims-Jones}} What's the name of the file? Sometimes that happens when file names contain odd characters (it has something to do with security). Try renaming the file to something simple. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:05, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|grlucas}} renaming them worked. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 10:35, 21 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T14:34:55Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ add files

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3
|File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 3 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.

[[File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|thumb|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.]]
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

File:20190302 SOI parts 3.JPG

2019-04-21T14:34:16Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3

== Summary ==
Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam
March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3

File:20190302 SOI parts 2.JPG

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Sherita Sims-Jones: SCENE: INSIDE AN ARMY TENT IN VIETNAM March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3

== Summary ==
SCENE: INSIDE AN ARMY TENT IN VIETNAM
March 22, 1965 page 2 of 3

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T14:25:22Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ update file name

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965 page 1 of 3
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.

[[File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|thumb|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.]]
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[Category:Projects]]

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T14:23:13Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ add file

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|there's SOI parts I'd just as soon she skip
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.

[[File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|thumb|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.]]
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

[[Category:Projects]]

File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG

2019-04-21T14:18:22Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: SCENE: INSIDE AN ARMY TENT IN VIETNAM MARCH 22, 1965 Page 1 of 3

== Summary ==
SCENE: INSIDE AN ARMY TENT IN VIETNAM
MARCH 22, 1965 Page 1 of 3

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-21T14:12:16Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Gallery */ add file

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|Harper's plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:Cover Mock-up-1.jpg|Mock-up cover for ''An American Dream''.
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
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|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
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==Letters==
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|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.

[[File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|thumb|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.]]
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== Reviews ==
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|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana_-_North_Am_Review_copy_(1).jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
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== Summary ==
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{{notice|From an essay written for a graduate course and reprinted here with the permission of the author's daughter.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese's penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta's boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer's vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: "A boxer? I don't like boxing •••• The idea...was something I didn't--couldn't--grasp".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled "Death" in ''The Presidential Papers'',{{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill''{{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight''{{sfn|Mailer|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer's vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream''{{sfn|Mailer|1966}} and ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find "the reward of the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike "Romeo" Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an ·existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it's difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer's biographers to date,{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}, {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}},{{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says "Tough writers ''can'' fight,"{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke's on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when "a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don't know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ' ••• It's goin' tough.' Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.'{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer's date home: according to Beverly," ••• I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who "had a very bad reputation in the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=93}} tells Cherry, "They're going to make a movie of my life" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: "Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. • • • It's the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} He concludes, "If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack's tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack's quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack's refusal to retreat before Romeo's crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer's vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro •••• have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence •••• Yet Jake is conscious of the "bad things" he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with ••• women • seem marked with a gratuitous brutality--for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film's end, Jake, shouting "I am not an animal!" in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), "faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins •••• A man recognizes his own soul."{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese's vision of regeneration and Mailer's lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists' relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a "prep-school bully," a "wrestler," a "gladiator".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie's pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, "Vickie La Motta had something special •••• she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, 'I'm beautiful, I'm happy, life is joyous ••• "'.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, "She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes ••• She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... ".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake's attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack's continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry's ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, "I don't hate. Never •••• Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film's later scenes, the retired
and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State's Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he
is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, "You could charge five bucks for those kisses".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: "In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think--with his brother, his
wife •••• he's sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta's story, like Rojack's, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake's venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by
the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship
and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer's protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer's work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

=='''Citations'''==
{{reflist}}

=='''Works Cited'''==

{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Mary Pat |date=1991 |title="Blood on the Ropes." Martin Scorsese: a Journey |location=New York |publisher=Thunder's Mouth |page=119-150}}

{{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1966 |title=An American Dream |location=New York |publisher=Dell}}

{{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1963 |title="Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute". The Presidential Papers |location=New York |publisher=Putnam's |page=213-267}}

Mailer, Norman (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little.

Mailer, Norman (1971). "King of the Hill." Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt.
as King of the Hill. New York: NAL.

Mailer, Norman (1984). Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random.

Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon.

Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire.

Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography. New York: Paragon.

Scorsese, Martin (1980). Raging Bull. United Artists.

<references />

Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T02:13:20Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: /* Works Cited */

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}}
__NOTOC__
{{byline|last=Leeds|first=Barry H.}}

{{aade-sm}}

{{notice|From an essay written for a graduate course and reprinted here with the permission of the author's daughter.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese's penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta's boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer's vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: "A boxer? I don't like boxing •••• The idea...was something I didn't--couldn't--grasp".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled "Death" in ''The Presidential Papers'',{{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill''{{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight''{{sfn|Mailer|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer's vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream''{{sfn|Mailer|1966}} and ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find "the reward of the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike "Romeo" Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an ·existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it's difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer's biographers to date,{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}, {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}},{{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says "Tough writers ''can'' fight,"{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke's on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when "a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don't know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ' ••• It's goin' tough.' Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.'{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer's date home: according to Beverly," ••• I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who "had a very bad reputation in the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=93}} tells Cherry, "They're going to make a movie of my life" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: "Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. • • • It's the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} He concludes, "If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack's tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack's quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack's refusal to retreat before Romeo's crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer's vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro •••• have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence •••• Yet Jake is conscious of the "bad things" he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with ••• women • seem marked with a gratuitous brutality--for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film's end, Jake, shouting "I am not an animal!" in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), "faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins •••• A man recognizes his own soul."{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese's vision of regeneration and Mailer's lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists' relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a "prep-school bully," a "wrestler," a "gladiator".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie's pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, "Vickie La Motta had something special •••• she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, 'I'm beautiful, I'm happy, life is joyous ••• "'.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, "She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes ••• She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... ".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake's attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack's continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry's ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, "I don't hate. Never •••• Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film's later scenes, the retired
and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State's Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he
is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, "You could charge five bucks for those kisses".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: "In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think--with his brother, his
wife •••• he's sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta's story, like Rojack's, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake's venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by
the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship
and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer's protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer's work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

=='''Citations'''==
{{reflist}}

=='''Works Cited'''==

Kelly, Mary Pat (1991). "Blood on the Ropes." Martin Scorsese: a Journey. New York: Thunder's Mouth. pp. 119-150.

Mailer, Norman (1966). An American Dream. New York: Dell

Mailer, Norman (1963). "Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute." The Presidential
Papers. New York: Putnam's. pp. 213-267.

Mailer, Norman (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little.

Mailer, Norman (1971). "King of the Hill." Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt.
as King of the Hill. New York: NAL.

Mailer, Norman (1984). Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random.

Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon.

Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire.

Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography. New York: Paragon.

Scorsese, Martin (1980). Raging Bull. United Artists.

{{cite book |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |location= |publisher= |page= |isbn= |author-link= }}

<references />

Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T02:10:17Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: remove spaces between footnotes

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}}
__NOTOC__
{{byline|last=Leeds|first=Barry H.}}

{{aade-sm}}

{{notice|From an essay written for a graduate course and reprinted here with the permission of the author's daughter.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese's penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta's boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer's vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: "A boxer? I don't like boxing •••• The idea...was something I didn't--couldn't--grasp".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled "Death" in ''The Presidential Papers'',{{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill''{{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight''{{sfn|Mailer|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer's vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream''{{sfn|Mailer|1966}} and ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find "the reward of the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike "Romeo" Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an ·existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it's difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer's biographers to date,{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}, {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}},{{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says "Tough writers ''can'' fight,"{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke's on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when "a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don't know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ' ••• It's goin' tough.' Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.'{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer's date home: according to Beverly," ••• I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who "had a very bad reputation in the ring"{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=93}} tells Cherry, "They're going to make a movie of my life" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: "Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. • • • It's the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} He concludes, "If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack's tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack's quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack's refusal to retreat before Romeo's crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer's vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro •••• have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence •••• Yet Jake is conscious of the "bad things" he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with ••• women • seem marked with a gratuitous brutality--for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film's end, Jake, shouting "I am not an animal!" in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), "faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins •••• A man recognizes his own soul."{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese's vision of regeneration and Mailer's lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists' relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a "prep-school bully," a "wrestler," a "gladiator".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie's pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, "Vickie La Motta had something special •••• she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, 'I'm beautiful, I'm happy, life is joyous ••• "'.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, "She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes ••• She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... ".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake's attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack's continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry's ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, "I don't hate. Never •••• Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film's later scenes, the retired
and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State's Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he
is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, "You could charge five bucks for those kisses".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: "In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think--with his brother, his
wife •••• he's sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it".{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta's story, like Rojack's, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake's venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by
the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship
and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer's protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer's work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

=='''Citations'''==
{{reflist}}

=='''Works Cited'''==

Kelly, Mary Pat (1991). "Blood on the Ropes." Martin Scorsese: a Journey. New York: Thunder's Mouth. pp. 119-150.

Mailer, Norman (1966). An American Dream. New York: Dell

Mailer, Norman (1963). "Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute." The Presidential
Papers. New York: Putnam's. pp. 213-267.

Mailer, Norman (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little.

Mailer, Norman (1971). "King of the Hill." Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt.
as King of the Hill. New York: NAL.

Mailer, Norman (1984). Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random.

Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon.

Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire.

Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography. New York: Paragon.

Scorsese, Martin (1980). Raging Bull. United Artists.

<references />

Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T02:05:41Z

Sherita Sims-Jones:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}}
__NOTOC__
{{byline|last=Leeds|first=Barry H.}}

{{aade-sm}}

{{notice|From an essay written for a graduate course and reprinted here with the permission of the author's daughter.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese's penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta's boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer's vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: "A boxer? I don't like boxing •••• The idea...was something I didn't--couldn't--grasp". {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled "Death" in ''The Presidential Papers'', {{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill'' {{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight'' {{sfn|Mailer|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer's vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream'' {{sfn|Mailer|1966}} and ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find "the reward of the ring" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike "Romeo" Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an ·existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it's difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer's biographers to date, {{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}, {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}, {{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says "Tough writers ''can'' fight," {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke's on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when "a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta". {{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don't know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ' ••• It's goin' tough.' Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.'{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer's date home: according to Beverly," ••• I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who "had a very bad reputation in the ring" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=93}} tells Cherry, "They're going to make a movie of my life" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: "Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. • • • It's the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} He concludes, "If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack's tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack's quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack's refusal to retreat before Romeo's crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer's vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro •••• have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence •••• Yet Jake is conscious of the "bad things" he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with ••• women • seem marked with a gratuitous brutality--for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film's end, Jake, shouting "I am not an animal!" in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), "faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins •••• A man recognizes his own soul." {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese's vision of regeneration and Mailer's lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists' relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a "prep-school bully," a "wrestler," a "gladiator". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie's pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, "Vickie La Motta had something special •••• she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, 'I'm beautiful, I'm happy, life is joyous ••• "'. {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, "She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes ••• She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... ".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake's attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack's continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry's ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, "I don't hate. Never •••• Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film's later scenes, the retired
and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State's Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he
is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, "You could charge five bucks for those kisses". {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: "In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think--with his brother, his
wife •••• he's sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it". {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta's story, like Rojack's, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake's venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by
the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship
and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer's protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer's work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

=='''Citations'''==
{{reflist}}

=='''Works Cited'''==

Kelly, Mary Pat (1991). "Blood on the Ropes." Martin Scorsese: a Journey. New York: Thunder's Mouth. pp. 119-150.

Mailer, Norman (1966). An American Dream. New York: Dell

--- (1963). "Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute." The Presidential
Papers. New York: Putnam's. pp. 213-267.

--- (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little.

--- (1971). "King of the Hill." Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt.
as King of the Hill. New York: NAL.

--- (1984). Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random.

Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon.

Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire.

Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography. New York: Paragon.

Scorsese, Martin (1980). Raging Bull. United Artists.

<references />

Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream

2019-04-21T02:04:31Z

Sherita Sims-Jones: update citations

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}}
__NOTOC__
{{byline|last=Leeds|first=Barry H.}}

{{aade-sm}}

{{notice|From an essay written for a graduate course and reprinted here with the permission of the author's daughter.}}

Throughout most of his career, [[Norman_Mailer|Norman Mailer]] has used gladiatorial combat, and boxing in particular, as a moral touchstone in his life as well as his work. ''Raging Bull'', Martin Scorsese's penetrating treatment of Jake La Motta's boxing career and the role of violence as it defined La Motta both in and out of the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer's vision of boxing.

Unlike Mailer, who has been fascinated by boxing from the outset, Scorsese came reluctantly to the sport as an artistic subject. When Robert De Niro gave him the book ''Raging Bull'' and suggested it as a film project, Scorsese recalls, his response was: "A boxer? I don't like boxing •••• The idea...was something I didn't--couldn't--grasp". {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=122}}

By contrast, Mailer has consistently treated violent confrontation as a central metaphor for his own artistic and personal struggles for growth, fulfillment, salvation. During his youth and middle age, he was known for his refusal to avoid a brawl. This ethic has been evident for at least thirty years in his writing. In his powerful essay titled "Death" in ''The Presidential Papers'', {{sfn|Mailer|1963}} Mailer uses the first Sonny Liston/Floyd Patterson championship bout as a point of departure from which to develop a profound series of perceptions about the American national temperament, particularly that of blacks. In ''King of the Hill'' {{sfn|Mailer|1971}} and more strikingly in ''The Fight'' {{sfn|---|1975}} he deals nominally with a specific fight but goes beyond journalism to find certain normative precepts in the sport. A more important level on which boxing informs Mailer's vision is in his fiction, notably ''An American Dream'' {{sfn|Mailer|1966}} and ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'',{{sfn|Mailer|1984}} in which boxing experiences help define the protagonists. Stephen Richards Rojack and Tim Madden respectively find "the reward of the ring" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=16}} applicable to their quests for identity. Thus, Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition.

An interesting confluence of life and art informs the comparison between Scorsese and Mailer. In his seminal novel ''An American Dream'', Mailer introduces a brief but significant confrontation between his protagonist, Stephen Richards Rojack (a university professor, television personality and amateur boxer) and a brash retired prizefighter, Ike "Romeo" Romalozzo. This provides a significant test of courage for Rojack in the series of challenges by which he wins the love of Cherry Melanie and finds his way to personal salvation and an ·existential definition of self. Romeo seems clearly modeled on Jake La Motta.

Despite the pitfalls of biographical criticism, it's difficult to ignore the similarities between Romalozzo and La Motta or the fact that Mailer drew upon personal experience in this scene. Each of Mailer's biographers to date, {{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}}, {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}, {{sfn|Rollyson|1991|page=155}} recounts the story of how Mailer first met Beverly Bentley, who was to become his fourth wife and the prototype for Cherry in ''An American Dream''. Mailer and his friend Roger Donoghue, a world middleweight contender from 1946 to 1952 with whom Mailer frequently sparred, and who says "Tough writers ''can'' fight," {{sfn|Manso|1985|page=677}} were drinking at P.J. Clarke's on the East Side of Manhattan one spring night in 1963 when "a pretty blond actress, Beverly Bentley, walked in, accompanied by former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta". {{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} Donoghue, who knew Bentley, introduced her to Mailer. According to Donoghue,

<blockquote>I don't know what happened to La Motta that night, but a couple of years ago, in fact, I ran into Norman and asked how the divorce from Beverly was going. He says, ' ••• It's goin' tough.' Then we got talking about the movie ''Raging Bull''--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake La Motta.'{{sfn|Manso|1985|page=374}}</blockquote>

Mailer, like his character Stephen Rojack, took the boxer's date home: according to Beverly," ••• I was attracted to the vulnerability beneath his tough act. He walked me to my apartment. That night he was wonderful in bed".{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional scene in ''An American Dream''. Romeo, who "had a very bad reputation in the ring" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=93}} tells Cherry, "They're going to make a movie of my life" {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} The projected movie is described by Romeo in terms of clichés: "Story of a kid who goes bad, turns straight, goes bad again. • • • It's the fault of the company he keeps. Bad influences. Cheap whiskey. Broads".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}} He concludes, "If they get a good enough actor to play my part they are going to make a very good movie".{{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=101}}

No better actor could have played La Motta than Robert De Niro in his Academy Award-winning performance in ''Raging Bull'', and the film itself rises far above the Hollywood stereotypes described by Romeo. Yet the peculiarly American quality of the story as told in bald outline echoes the deceptively simple surface of Rojack's tale, that of a man who murders his wife, meets a beautiful blonde and survives the American experience intact. Thus, both Scorsese and Mailer are able to take hackneyed situations and transmute them into true art that transcends the trite and predictable.

In the novel, the Romeo passage becomes one of the dramatic turning points of Rojack's quest for personal salvation through courage. Although no blow is struck, Rojack's refusal to retreat before Romeo's crude bullying helps him grow morally and win the opportunity to begin his redemptive relationship with Cherry. More significantly, this scene raises the central issue of the similarities and differences between Mailer's vision of boxing and personal confrontation in such protagonists as Rojack, and that of Scorsese and De Niro in their portrayal of La Motta.

Both Rojack and La Motta seek their identities largely through courage and violence; and each achieves a form of spritual purification only after tempering, even renouncing, this violence. As Mary Pat Kelly writes in ''Martin Scorsese: A Journey'',

<blockquote>Scorsese and De Niro •••• have taken apart this man, Jake La Motta, and reconstructed not the fighter of reality, but the figure of a man so unconscious of his own feelings and emotions that he can speak only through violence •••• Yet Jake is conscious of the "bad things" he has done, and sees his defeats as a kind of punishment. His rise to the championship and his relationships with ••• women • seem marked with a gratuitous brutality--for example, he-destroys the face of the good-looking fighter whom his wife Vicki [sic] has admired.{{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}</blockquote>

Kelly goes on to suggest that at the film's end, Jake, shouting "I am not an animal!" in his jail cell and in a subsequent scene embracing his brother Joey (Joe Pesci), "faces himself and, somehow, redemption begins •••• A man recognizes his own soul." {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=121}}

Stephen Rojack is a far more cerebral and introspective character, but his rebirth, too, comes from purging his rage and ultimately achieving a more profound knowledge of himself.

A crucial point of departure between Scorsese's vision of regeneration and Mailer's lies in their respective treatments of their protagonists' relationships with women. Rojack sets out on his pilgrimage to salvation by murdering his witch-like wife Deborah with his bare hands, a scene rendered in pointedly combative terms. Deborah is described as a "prep-school bully," a "wrestler," a "gladiator". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=35}} Yet his moral conversion comes about largely because of his commitment to a fertile love for Cherry, whose name suggests the virginal new beginning which their affair represents for both partners.

Both Cherry and Vickie La Motta (as portrayed by Cathy Moriarty) epitomize the voluptuous blonde to be pursued as part of the American dream. Vickie, from her first introduction to Jake in the movie's pool scene, evokes an intense desirability and personal confidence. As Cis Corman remarks, "Vickie La Motta had something special •••• she had an attitude that was extraordinary. It said, 'I'm beautiful, I'm happy, life is joyous ••• "'. {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=131}} Cherry is portrayed in her nightclub performance as looking something like Grace Kelly and even like Marilyn Monroe. Rojack tells us, "She looked at different instants like a dozen lovely blondes ••• She had studied blondes, this Cherry, she was all of them.... ".{{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=94-95}} Jake's attitude towards Vickie, however, never seems to rise- above virulenti, self-destructive possessiveness, while Rojack is able to rise above jealousy to a relationship of reciprocal trust with Cherry which strengthens him.

Rojack's continued moral progress may be traced by the strategically placed scenes in which he fights Shago Martin, Cherry's ex-lover, and Barney Oswald Kelly, his satanic father-in-law. From Shago he learns mercy when, beaten, the singer says, "I don't hate. Never •••• Tell Cherry, her and you, I wish you luck". {{sfn|Scorsese|1980|page=183}} In his struggle with Kelly, who tries cold-bloodedly to kill him, Rojack uses minimal force and consciously controls his rage, throttling the murderous frenzy he knows himself capable of.

La Motta, by contrast, chooses violence (admittedly his profession, his route to success) over sexual love, as exemplified in the scene when he extinguishes his lust for Vickie while training for a fight by pouring ice water over his erection. Yet, even in the film's later scenes, the retired
and overweight La Motta is characterized by the barely concealed threat of imminent violence coupled with predatory sexuality that surrounds him like an aura, as in the scene in which he takes marginally unacceptable liberties with the wife {Laura James) of State's Attorney Bronson (D.J. Blair), to whom he
is introduced in his night club. A related scene, in which La Motta permits a fourteen-year-old girl (Mary Albee) to be served alcohol, accepting her lie that she is twenty-one on the evidence of her sophisticated appearance and her kiss, echoes the passage in ''An American Dream'' when Romeo, upon being introduced to Cherry, kisses her on the mouth and says, "You could charge five bucks for those kisses". {{sfn|Mailer|1966|page=100}}

Ultimately, La Motta is never redeemed to the degree that Rojack is. The extent of his moral change lies primarily in remorse: too little, too late. Even De Niro, who clearly felt an intense empathy for La Motta, says simply: "In the end, there was a lot of remorse with Jake, I think--with his brother, his
wife •••• he's sort of stoic. He takes the punishment. He created it, so he has to live with it". {{sfn|Kelly|1991|page=143}}

La Motta's story, like Rojack's, is peculiarly American, characterized in its early stages by a hunger for fame and material success. Jake's venality is mitigated by his commitment to his chosen profession: he cries after throwing a fight, and displays a religious devotion to his craft, as suggested by
the opening credits sequence in which he is shown shadow-boxing in slow motion, alone in a mysteriously shadowy ring, hooded like a monk, to the accompaniment of the ethereal Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. (In the opera itself, the Intermezzo suggests a momentary religious sanctuary before a violent confrontation prompted by jealousy.)

Yet Rojack is more like an American Everyman in that he struggles with fear. In contrast, La Motta thrives on pain (as we see most dramatically in the scene in which he insists that his brother hit him in the face repeatedly) and ultimately reassesses his life only after his fall from the championship
and the failure of his marriage.

Violence is central to both characters, Rojack and La Motta, the vehicle by which each defines himself. Both ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream'' are masterpieces of character study. Ultimately, however, Rojack arrives at a more complete redemption than La Motta through a profound recognition and redefinition of himself which enables him not only to renounce his rage but to embrace selfless love, Christian mercy and a personal peace beyond that of the raging bull.

Thus, the central difference between Mailer's protagonist and that created by Scorsese and De Niro is that Rojack, like many characters in Mailer's work, uses his violence to purge his inner corruption and learns, cerebrally and spiritually, to grow beyond it to a true salvation. La Motta, after the end of his boxing career, is left only with remorse.

=='''Citations'''==
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=='''Works Cited'''==

Kelly, Mary Pat (1991). "Blood on the Ropes." Martin Scorsese: a Journey. New York: Thunder's Mouth. pp. 119-150.

Mailer, Norman (1966). An American Dream. New York: Dell

--- (1963). "Death: Ten Thousand Words a Minute." The Presidential
Papers. New York: Putnam's. pp. 213-267.

--- (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little.

--- (1971). "King of the Hill." Life 19 March 1971: 18F-36. Rpt.
as King of the Hill. New York: NAL.

--- (1984). Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random.

Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon.

Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire.

Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography. New York: Paragon.

Scorsese, Martin (1980). Raging Bull. United Artists.

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