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=====''The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History''. New York: New American Library, 6 May; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, October. Nonfiction narrative on the anti-war March on the Pentagon, 317 pp., $5.95.=====
{{Big|''The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History''. New York: New American Library, 6 May; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, October. Nonfiction narrative on the anti-war March on the Pentagon, 317 pp., $5.95.}}


Dedication and acknowledgment: "To [[Beverly Bentley|Beverly]]; An acknowledgment to Sandy Charlebois for work beyond the call of duty".
Dedication and acknowledgment: “To [[w:Beverly Bentley|Beverly]]; An acknowledgment to Sandy Charlebois for work beyond the call of duty.


Published 20 years to the day after ''The Naked and the Dead'' ([[48.2]]).
Published 20 years to the day after ''The Naked and the Dead'' ([[48.2]]).


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters. In 1999, it was ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century by 36 judges under the aegis of New York University's journalism department. See "Journalism's Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century's Top Stories", ''New York Times'', 1 March 1999, Business Section, pp.1, 13.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters. In 1999, it was ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century by 36 judges under the aegis of New York University’s journalism department. See “[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/01/business/media-journalism-s-greatest-hits-two-lists-of-a-century-s-top-stories.html Journalism’s Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century’s Top Stories],''New York Times'', 1 March 1999, Business Section, pp. 1, 13.


Discarded titles: "Bust at the Pentagon"; "The Armies of the Dead". For an account of the work's genesis and reception written by the editor of ''Harper's'', see ''New York Days'' by Willie Morris (New York: Little, Brown, 1993), 213-22.
Discarded titles: “Bust at the Pentagon”; “The Armies of the Dead.For an account of the work’s genesis and reception written by the editor of ''Harper’s'', see ''New York Days'' by Willie Morris (New York: Little, Brown, 1993), 213–222.


Rpt: Entire narrative appeared earlier in two parts, in ''Harper's'' ([[68.2]]), and ''Commentary'' ([[68.6]]), respectively and was then revised for book publication; [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.26]], [[69.3]], [[69.4]], [[69.25]], [[69.26]], [[70.8]]–[[70.11]], [[72.7]], [[74.20]], [[79.14]], [[96.5]], [[13.2]], 381-94.
Rpt: Entire narrative appeared earlier in two parts, in ''Harper’s'' ([[68.2]]), and ''Commentary'' ([[68.6]]), respectively and was then revised for book publication; [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.26]], [[69.3]], [[69.4]], [[69.25]], [[69.26]], [[70.8]]–[[70.11]], [[72.7]], [[74.20]], [[79.14]], [[96.5]], [[13.2]], 381-94.


{{cquote|There is no sex [in ''The Armies of the Night'']. In that sense, it's a nineteenth-century novel. It's courtly, it's deliberate, it's amused with its time and place. It's taken for granted that its characters are all very fine and substantial people. We know it's going to turn out well in the end. I suppose it has the restrained merriment of the early nineteenth-century picaresque novel.|author=Norman Mailer |source=[[82.16]]}}
{{cquote|There is no sex [in ''The Armies of the Night'']. In that sense, it’s a nineteenth-century novel. It’s courtly, it’s deliberate, it’s amused with its time and place. It’s taken for granted that its characters are all very fine and substantial people. We know it’s going to turn out well in the end. I suppose it has the restrained merriment of the early nineteenth-century picaresque novel.|author=Norman Mailer |source=[[82.16]]}}


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== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==
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'''Reviews'''
===Reviews===
* {{cite news |last=Alvarez |first=A. |date=September 20, 1968 |title=Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye |url= |work=New Statesman |pages=351–352 |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
* {{cite news |last=Alvarez |first=A. |date=September 20, 1968 |title=Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye |url= |work=New Statesman |pages=351–352 |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
* {{cite news |last=Gilman |first=Richard |date=June 8, 1968 |title=What Mailer Has Done |url= |work=New Republic |pages=27–31 |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
* {{cite news |last=Gilman |first=Richard |date=June 8, 1968 |title=What Mailer Has Done |url= |work=New Republic |pages=27–31 |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
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* {{cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Willie |date=July 1968 |title=Norman Mailer's ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |magazine=Literary Guild Magazine |page=15 |publisher= |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
* {{cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Willie |date=July 1968 |title=Norman Mailer's ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |magazine=Literary Guild Magazine |page=15 |publisher= |access-date= |ref=harv }} Positive.
* {{cite magazine |last=O'Brien |first=Connor Cruise |date=June 20, 1968 |title=Confessions of the Last American |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1968/06/20/confessions-of-the-last-american/ |magazine=New York Review of Books |pages=16–18 |ref=harv |access-date=2018-11-07 }} Positive.
* {{cite magazine |last=O'Brien |first=Connor Cruise |date=June 20, 1968 |title=Confessions of the Last American |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1968/06/20/confessions-of-the-last-american/ |magazine=New York Review of Books |pages=16–18 |ref=harv |access-date=2018-11-07 }} Positive.
* {{cite news |last=Puzo |first=Mario |date=April 28, 1968 |title=Generalissimo Mailer: Hero of His Own Dispatches |url= |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Book World |pages=1, 3 |author-link=Mario Puzo |ref=harv }} Negative.
* {{cite news |last=Puzo |first=Mario |date=April 28, 1968 |title=Generalissimo Mailer: Hero of His Own Dispatches |url= |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Book World |pages=1, 3 |author-link=w:Mario Puzo |ref=harv }} Negative.
* {{cite magazine |last=Simon |first=John |date=1968 |title=Mailer on the March |url= |magazine=Hudson Review |volume=21 |location= |publisher= |pages=541–545 |ref=harv }} Negative.
* {{cite magazine |last=Simon |first=John |date=1968 |title=Mailer on the March |url= |magazine=Hudson Review |volume=21 |location= |publisher= |pages=541–545 |ref=harv }} Negative.


'''Essays'''
===Other Works===
* {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Laura |date=1976 |chapter=Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer |title=Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer |location=Athens, OH |publisher=Ohio University Press |pages=121–137 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Anderson |first=Chris |date=1987 |chapter=Style as Argument |title=Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages=98–118 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last=Baudy |first=Leo |date=May 12, 1968 |title=Advertisements for a Dwarf Alter Ego |journal=The New Journal |volume=5 |pages=14 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Begiebing |first=Robert J. |date=1980 |chapter=The Armies of the Night |title=Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Work of Norman Mailer |location=Columbia |publisher=University of Missouri Press |pages=141–165 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last=Berman |first=Paul |date=August 24, 2008 |title=Mailer’s Great American Breakdown |work=The New York Times |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Berthoff |first=Warner |chapter=Witness and Testament: Two Contemporary Classics |date=1971 |title=Fictions and Events |url=https://archive.org/details/fictionseventses00bert |location=New York |publisher=Dutton |pages=288–308 |isbn=0525104704 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Berthoff |first=Warner |chapter=Witness and Testament: Two Contemporary Classics |date=1971 |title=Fictions and Events |url=https://archive.org/details/fictionseventses00bert |location=New York |publisher=Dutton |pages=288–308 |isbn=0525104704 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last=Breslin |first=James E. |date=1978 |title=Style in Norman Mailer’s ''The Armies of the Night'' |journal=The Yearbook of English Studies |volume=8 |pages=157–170 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Bufithis |first=Philip H. |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer |series=Modern Literature Monographs |location=New York |publisher=Ungar |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last=Burgess |first=Anthony |date=September 23, 1968 |title=Norman Mailer on the March |work=London Sunday Times |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Caute |first=David |date=1974 |chapter=Censored: Who’s Afraid of Norman Mailer |title=Collisions: Essays and Reviews |location=London |publisher=Quartet Books |pages=46–67 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite conference |last=Corrigan |first=Maureen |date=April 2023 |title=Keynote Address |conference=Norman Mailer Society Conference |location=University of Texas at Austin |ref=harv }} Unpublished.
* {{cite magazine |last=Denby |first=David |date=January 2018 |title=Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington |magazine=Harper’s |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last=Dickstein |first=Morris |date=2007 |title=How Mailer Became “Mailer”: The Writer as Private and Public Character |journal=The Mailer Review |pages=118–131 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last=Dickstein |first=Morris |authormask=1 |date=1976 |title=The Working Press, the Literary Culture, and the New Journalism |journal=The Georgia Review |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=855–877 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Ehrlich |first=Robert |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer: The Radical as Hipster |location=Metuchen |publisher=Scarecrow Press |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Epstein |first=Edward J. |date=1975 |title=Between Fact and Fiction: The Problem of Journalism |location=New York |publisher=Vintage |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last=Fields |first=Suzanne |date=November 14, 2007 |title=Recalling My Mailer Crush |work=Jewish World Review |ref=harv }}
* Full-page advertisement containing plaudits for ''The Armies of the Night''. June 23, 1968. ''New York Times Book Review''. 20 excerpts.
* {{cite book |last=Gaitskill |first=Mary |date=1983 |chapter=This Doughty Nose: On Norman Mailer's ''An American Dream'' and ''The Armies of the Night'' |title=Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays |url= |location=New York |publisher=Pantheon |pages=120–130 |isbn=9780307378224 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Gaitskill |first=Mary |date=1983 |chapter=This Doughty Nose: On Norman Mailer's ''An American Dream'' and ''The Armies of the Night'' |title=Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays |url= |location=New York |publisher=Pantheon |pages=120–130 |isbn=9780307378224 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Gopnik |first=Adam |date=July 11, 2018 |title=The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s ''The Armies of the Night'' |magazine=The New Yorker |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Gutman |first=Stanley T. |date=1975 |title=Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer |location=Hanover |publisher=University Press of New England |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Hellmann |first=John |date=1981 |title=Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Hollowell |first=John |date=1977 |chapter= |title=Fact & Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel |location=Chapel Hill |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |pages=87–101 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Karl |first=Frederick R. |date=1983 |title=American Fictions, 1940–1980 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfictions00karl |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |pages=178–182 |isbn=0060149396 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Karl |first=Frederick R. |date=1983 |title=American Fictions, 1940–1980 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfictions00karl |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |pages=178–182 |isbn=0060149396 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |date=2013 |chapter= |title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |pages=381–394 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Levine |first=David |date=1968 |title=Cartoon of Mailer, Lowell, and Macdonald |title=New York Review of Books |ref=harv }} Illustration.
* {{cite book |last=Lodge |first=David |date=1971 |chapter=The Novelist at the Crossroads |title=The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism |url=https://archive.org/details/novelistatcross00davi |location=Ithaca |publisher=Cornell UP |pages=3–34 |isbn=0801406749 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Lodge |first=David |date=1971 |chapter=The Novelist at the Crossroads |title=The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism |url=https://archive.org/details/novelistatcross00davi |location=Ithaca |publisher=Cornell UP |pages=3–34 |isbn=0801406749 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Lounsberry |first=Barbara |date=1990 |chapter= |title=The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction |location=New York |publisher=Greenwood Press |pages=152–168 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lowell |first1=Robert |date=September–October 1978 |title=A Conversation with Ian Hamilton |url= |journal=American Poetry Review |volume= |issue= |pages=23–27 |doi= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lowell |first1=Robert |date=September–October 1978 |title=A Conversation with Ian Hamilton |url= |journal=American Poetry Review |volume= |issue= |pages=23–27 |doi= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Lowell |first=Robert |authormask=1 |date=November 23, 1967 |title=The March |magazine=New York Review of Books |ref=harv }} Poem.
* {{cite book |last=Menand |first=Louis |date=2002 |chapter=Norman Mailer in His Time |title=American Studies |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |pages=146–161 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Meredith |first1=Robert |date=Autumn 1971 |title=The 45-Second Piss: A Left Critique of Norman Mailer and ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Modern Fiction Studies |volume=17 |issue= |pages=433–438 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Meredith |first1=Robert |date=Autumn 1971 |title=The 45-Second Piss: A Left Critique of Norman Mailer and ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Modern Fiction Studies |volume=17 |issue= |pages=433–438 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Merrill |first=Robert |date=1986 |chapter=The Armies of the Night |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |title=Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views |location=New York |publisher=Chelsea House |pages=127–137 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Middlebrook |first1=Jonathan |date=Winter 1970 |title=Can a Middle-aged Man with Four Wives and Six Children Be a Revolutionary? |url= |journal=Journal of Popular Culture |volume=3 |issue= |pages=565–574 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Middlebrook |first1=Jonathan |date=Winter 1970 |title=Can a Middle-aged Man with Four Wives and Six Children Be a Revolutionary? |url= |journal=Journal of Popular Culture |volume=3 |issue= |pages=565–574 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Mosser |first1=Jason |date=2009 |title=Genre-Bending in ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=3 |issue= |pages=307–321 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Mosser |first1=Jason |date=2009 |title=Genre-Bending in ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=3 |issue= |pages=307–321 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Olster |first=Stacy |date=1989 |chapter= |title=Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=55–64 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Piazza |first=Tom |date=2011 |chapter=Citizen Mailer |title=Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America |url=https://archive.org/details/devilsentrainmus00piaz |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |pages=213–221 |isbn=9780062008220 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Piazza |first=Tom |date=2011 |chapter=Citizen Mailer |title=Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America |url=https://archive.org/details/devilsentrainmus00piaz |location=New York |publisher=Harper Perennial |pages=213–221 |isbn=9780062008220 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Poirier |first=Richard |date=1972 |title=Norman Mailer |location=New York |publisher=Viking Press |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last=Raymont |first=Henry |date=March 28, 1969 |title=Harper’s Editor Hails Polk Prize for Mailer |work=The New York Times |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Seib |first1=Kenneth A. |date=Spring 1974 |title=Mailer's March: The Epic Structure of ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Essays in Literature |volume=1 |issue= |pages=89–95 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Seib |first1=Kenneth A. |date=Spring 1974 |title=Mailer's March: The Epic Structure of ''The Armies of the Night'' |url= |journal=Essays in Literature |volume=1 |issue= |pages=89–95 |doi= |access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Kathy |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer and the Radical Text |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |title=Norman Mailer: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views |location=New York |publisher=Chelsea House |pages=181–196 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Gordon O. |date=March 1974 |title=Of Adams and Aquarius |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2924124 |journal=American Literature |volume=46 |issue= |pages=68–82 |access-date=2018-11-07 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Gordon O. |date=March 1974 |title=Of Adams and Aquarius |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2924124 |journal=American Literature |volume=46 |issue= |pages=68–82 |access-date=2018-11-07 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Trachtenberg |first=Alan |date=May 28, 1968 |title=Mailer on the Steps of the Pentagon |magazine=The Nation |pages=701–702 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Vizinczey |first=Stephen |date=1986 |title=Condemned World, Literary Kingdom |location=Toronto |publisher=McClelland and Stewart |pages=197–199 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Weber |first=Ronald |date=1980 |chapter= |title=The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing |location=Athens, OH |publisher=Ohio University Press |pages=81–88 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Wenke |first=Joseph |date=1987 |chapter= |title=Mailer’s America |location=Hanover |publisher=University Press of New England |pages=139–163 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Wolfe |editor-first=Tom |editor2-last=Johnson |editor2-first=E. W. |date=1973 |title=The New Journalism |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Zavarzadeh |first=Masud |date=1976 |title=The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |ref=harv }}
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History. New York: New American Library, 6 May; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, October. Nonfiction narrative on the anti-war March on the Pentagon, 317 pp., $5.95.

Dedication and acknowledgment: “To Beverly; An acknowledgment to Sandy Charlebois for work beyond the call of duty.”

Published 20 years to the day after The Naked and the Dead (48.2).

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters. In 1999, it was ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century by 36 judges under the aegis of New York University’s journalism department. See “Journalism’s Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century’s Top Stories,” New York Times, 1 March 1999, Business Section, pp. 1, 13.

Discarded titles: “Bust at the Pentagon”; “The Armies of the Dead.” For an account of the work’s genesis and reception written by the editor of Harper’s, see New York Days by Willie Morris (New York: Little, Brown, 1993), 213–222.

Rpt: Entire narrative appeared earlier in two parts, in Harper’s (68.2), and Commentary (68.6), respectively and was then revised for book publication; 98.7 (partial). See 68.26, 69.3, 69.4, 69.25, 69.26, 70.870.11, 72.7, 74.20, 79.14, 96.5, 13.2, 381-94.

Bibliography

Reviews

  • Alvarez, A. (September 20, 1968). "Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye". New Statesman. pp. 351–352. Positive.
  • Gilman, Richard (June 8, 1968). "What Mailer Has Done". New Republic. pp. 27–31. Positive.
  • Kazin, Alfred (May 5, 1968). "The Trouble He's Seen". The New York Times. Books. pp. 1–2, 26. Retrieved 2017-08-27. Positive.
  • Lipton, Lawrence (May 31, 1968). "Norman Mailer: Genius, Novelist, Critic, Playwright, Politico, Journalist, and General All-Around Shit". Los Angeles Free Press. pp. 27–28. Mixed.
  • Macdonald, Dwight (1974). "Armies of the Night, or Bad Man Makes Good". Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts. New York: Grossman. p. 210–216. Positive.
  • Maddocks, Melvin (May 10, 1968). "Norm's Ego is Working Overtime for YOU". Life. p. 8. Mixed.
  • Morris, Willie (July 1968). "Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night". Literary Guild Magazine. p. 15. Positive.
  • O'Brien, Connor Cruise (June 20, 1968). "Confessions of the Last American". New York Review of Books. pp. 16–18. Retrieved 2018-11-07. Positive.
  • Puzo, Mario (April 28, 1968). "Generalissimo Mailer: Hero of His Own Dispatches". Chicago Tribune. Book World. pp. 1, 3. Negative.
  • Simon, John (1968). "Mailer on the March". Hudson Review. Vol. 21. pp. 541–545. Negative.

Other Works

  • Adams, Laura (1976). "Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer". Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. pp. 121–137.
  • Anderson, Chris (1987). "Style as Argument". Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 98–118.
  • Baudy, Leo (May 12, 1968). "Advertisements for a Dwarf Alter Ego". The New Journal. 5: 14.
  • Begiebing, Robert J. (1980). "The Armies of the Night". Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Work of Norman Mailer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. pp. 141–165.
  • Berman, Paul (August 24, 2008). "Mailer's Great American Breakdown". The New York Times.
  • Berthoff, Warner (1971). "Witness and Testament: Two Contemporary Classics". Fictions and Events. New York: Dutton. pp. 288–308. ISBN 0525104704.
  • Breslin, James E. (1978). "Style in Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night". The Yearbook of English Studies. 8: 157–170.
  • Bufithis, Philip H. (1978). Norman Mailer. Modern Literature Monographs. New York: Ungar.
  • Burgess, Anthony (September 23, 1968). "Norman Mailer on the March". London Sunday Times.
  • Caute, David (1974). "Censored: Who's Afraid of Norman Mailer". Collisions: Essays and Reviews. London: Quartet Books. pp. 46–67.
  • Corrigan, Maureen (April 2023). Keynote Address. Norman Mailer Society Conference. University of Texas at Austin. Unpublished.
  • Denby, David (January 2018). "Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington". Harper’s.
  • Dickstein, Morris (2007). "How Mailer Became "Mailer": The Writer as Private and Public Character". The Mailer Review: 118–131.
  • — (1976). "The Working Press, the Literary Culture, and the New Journalism". The Georgia Review. 30 (4): 855–877.
  • Ehrlich, Robert (1978). Norman Mailer: The Radical as Hipster. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press.
  • Epstein, Edward J. (1975). Between Fact and Fiction: The Problem of Journalism. New York: Vintage.
  • Fields, Suzanne (November 14, 2007). "Recalling My Mailer Crush". Jewish World Review.
  • Full-page advertisement containing plaudits for The Armies of the Night. June 23, 1968. New York Times Book Review. 20 excerpts.
  • Gaitskill, Mary (1983). "This Doughty Nose: On Norman Mailer's An American Dream and The Armies of the Night". Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays. New York: Pantheon. pp. 120–130. ISBN 9780307378224.
  • Gopnik, Adam (July 11, 2018). "The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night". The New Yorker.
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