The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Exhuming Mailer’s America - Revision history

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	{{dc\|dc=N\|orman Mailer who marched unabashed}} and unafraid through the 1960’s American counterculture and assailed our literary senses throughout his life, is probably cursing in his grave—and, oh, what colorfully foul words he knew how to use.		{{dc\|dc=N\|orman Mailer who marched unabashed}} and unafraid through the 1960’s American counterculture and assailed our literary senses throughout his life, is probably cursing in his grave—and, oh, what colorfully foul words he knew how to use.

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 ''Armies''’ first book, lion’s share and literary meat, is “History as a Novel,” a personal account of Mailer’s involvement in the protest as part of a platoon of American social leaders and literati, including [[w:Noam Chomsky|Noam Chomsky]], [[w:Benjamin Spock|Benjamin Spock]], [[w:Robert Lowell|Robert Lowell]], [[w:Paul Goodman|Paul Goodman]], [[w:Marcus Raskin|Marcus Raskin]] and [[w:Dwight McDonald|Dwight McDonald]]. We see Mailer at pre-protest discussions, walking in mass protest, arrested and spending a night in jail. (He and his fellow notables decided, over drinks the night before, that they needed to get arrested so as to keep the mass media from labeling the protesters as just “hippies” and “student radicals.”) Through Mailer’s eyes, but told in a masterfully unsettling third person perspective viewing everything, including the character of Mailer, we are swept up by the ethos and bounce off the egos of the protesters. For the first time, for me, many of these historic counterculture figures are given flesh and blood, if not realism.
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+The second book, “The Novel as History,” tells the same story but is more pleasingly concise for the researcher and the history aficionado; it is a short, believable report of the events before and after the protest. As Mailer wrote, it was “[t]he Novelist...passing his baton to the Historian,”{{sfn|Mailer|1968|p=243}} an effort necessary because “[t]he mass media which surrounded the March on the Pentagon created a forest of inaccuracy which would blind the efforts of an historian.”{{sfn|Mailer|1968|p=243}}
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