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Dedication: “To my Father.” Nominated for the National Book Award in the history and biography category. Rpt: [[68.27]], [[76.5]], [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.18]], [[69.3]], [[72.7]]. | Dedication: “To my Father.” Nominated for the National Book Award in the history and biography category. Rpt: [[68.27]], [[76.5]], [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.18]], [[69.3]], [[72.7]]. | ||
{{cquote|. . . you end up writing best about those historic events which have a magnetic relation to your own ideas and tend to write less well about situations where that doesn’t occur. I think, for example, Miami and the Siege of Chicago is probably a better book than ''St. George and the Godfather''.<ref>[[72.17]]</ref> For a number of reasons including the fact that the conventions themselves were more exciting, but also because there was a polarity in ’68 more congenial to me than in ’72.|author= | {{cquote|. . . you end up writing best about those historic events which have a magnetic relation to your own ideas and tend to write less well about situations where that doesn’t occur. I think, for example, Miami and the Siege of Chicago is probably a better book than ''St. George and the Godfather''.<ref>[[72.17]]</ref> For a number of reasons including the fact that the conventions themselves were more exciting, but also because there was a polarity in ’68 more congenial to me than in ’72.|author={{NM}} |source=[[75.11]] }} | ||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
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'''Reviews''' | '''Reviews''' | ||
* {{cite magazine |last=Buckley |first=Priscilla L. |date=February 11, 1969 |title=Seeing It like Mailer Does |url= |magazine=National Review |pages=129–130 |publisher= |access-date= }} Negative. | |||
* {{cite news |last=Fremont-Smith |first=Eliot |date=October 28, 1968 |title=Family Report |url= |work=New York Times |location= |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
* {{cite news |last=Fuller |first=Edmund |date=December 20, 1968 |title=Review of ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' |url= |work=Wall Street Journal |page=14 |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
* {{cite news |last=Richardson |first=Jack |date=May 8, 1969 |title=The Aesthetics of Norman Mailer |url= |work=New York Review of Books |pages=8–9 |access-date= }} Positive. Rpt: Lucid (1971), Bloom (1986). | |||
* {{cite magazine |last=Shaw |first=Peter |date=December 1968 |title=The Conventions, 1968 |url= |magazine=Commentary |pages=93–96 |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive. | |||
* {{cite magazine |last=Sheed |first=Wilfred |date=December 6, 1968 |title=''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'': A Review |url= |magazine=New York Times Book Review |pages=3, 56 |publisher= |access-date= }} Mixed. | |||
'''Essays''' | '''Essays''' | ||
* {{cite book |last=Bailey |first=Jennifer |chapter=The Novelist versus the Reporter |date=1979 |title=Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |pages=101–113 |isbn= |author-link= }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Braudy |first=Leo |editor-last=Braudy |editor-first=Leo |chapter=Norman Mailer: The Pride of Vulnerability |date=1972 |title=Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer00leob |series=Twentieth Century Views |location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ |publisher=Prentice Hall |pages=1–20 |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last1=Hitchens |first1=Christopher |date=2008 |title=Norman Mailer: ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=2 |issue= |pages=264–269 |doi= |access-date= }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Leeds |first=Barry H. |date=1969 |title=[[The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer]] |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Rich |first=Frank |chapter=Introduction |date=2008 |title=Miami and the Siege of Chicago |url= |location=New York |publisher=New York Review Books |pages=vii–xi |isbn= |author-link= }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Wenke |first=Joseph |chapter=Mailer’s Nonfiction (1968–72): The View of the Outsider |date=2014 |orig-year=1987 |title=Mailer's America |pages=167–177 |location=Hanover, NH; London |publisher=University Press of New England for University of Connecticut |isbn=0874513936 |author-link= }} | |||
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[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. New York: World, 24 October; simultaneously as a softcover: New York: New American Library; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, November or December, with different subtitle: An Informal History of the American Political Conventions of 1968. Nonfiction narrative, 223 pp., $5.95.
Dedication: “To my Father.” Nominated for the National Book Award in the history and biography category. Rpt: 68.27, 76.5, 98.7 (partial). See 68.18, 69.3, 72.7.
| “ | . . . you end up writing best about those historic events which have a magnetic relation to your own ideas and tend to write less well about situations where that doesn’t occur. I think, for example, Miami and the Siege of Chicago is probably a better book than St. George and the Godfather.[1] For a number of reasons including the fact that the conventions themselves were more exciting, but also because there was a polarity in ’68 more congenial to me than in ’72. | ” |
| — Mailer, 75.11 | ||
Bibliography
Reviews
- Buckley, Priscilla L. (February 11, 1969). "Seeing It like Mailer Does". National Review. pp. 129–130. Negative.
- Fremont-Smith, Eliot (October 28, 1968). "Family Report". New York Times. Positive.
- Fuller, Edmund (December 20, 1968). "Review of Miami and the Siege of Chicago". Wall Street Journal. p. 14. Positive.
- Richardson, Jack (May 8, 1969). "The Aesthetics of Norman Mailer". New York Review of Books. pp. 8–9. Positive. Rpt: Lucid (1971), Bloom (1986).
- Shaw, Peter (December 1968). "The Conventions, 1968". Commentary. pp. 93–96. Positive.
- Sheed, Wilfred (December 6, 1968). "Miami and the Siege of Chicago: A Review". New York Times Book Review. pp. 3, 56. Mixed.
Essays
- Bailey, Jennifer (1979). "The Novelist versus the Reporter". Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 101–113.
- Braudy, Leo (1972). "Norman Mailer: The Pride of Vulnerability". In Braudy, Leo. Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 1–20.
- Hitchens, Christopher (2008). "Norman Mailer: Miami and the Siege of Chicago". Mailer Review. 2: 264–269.
- Leeds, Barry H. (1969). The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press.
- Rich, Frank (2008). "Introduction". Miami and the Siege of Chicago. New York: New York Review Books. pp. vii–xi.
- Wenke, Joseph (2014) [1987]. "Mailer's Nonfiction (1968–72): The View of the Outsider". Mailer's America. Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England for University of Connecticut. pp. 167–177. ISBN 0874513936.
