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{{abstract|Mailer’s fourth novel can be read as sardonic social criticism and a dramatic critique on those nuances underlining the ambiguous values in contemporary America, on those individual roots of American aspirations and ideals. For Mailer, the collective ideal is a civilized composite of everyone’s primitive desires.}} | |||
'''[[Donald L. Kaufmann]]'''{{efn|Reprinted by permission of the author, Donald F. Kaufmann. From {{cite book |last=Kaufmann |first=Donald L. |date=1969 |title=Norman Mailer: The Countdown |url= |location=Carbondale, IL |publisher=Southern Illinois UP |pages=35–50 |isbn= |author-link= }} }} | '''[[Donald L. Kaufmann]]'''{{efn|Reprinted by permission of the author, Donald F. Kaufmann. From {{cite book |last=Kaufmann |first=Donald L. |date=1969 |title=Norman Mailer: The Countdown |url= |location=Carbondale, IL |publisher=Southern Illinois UP |pages=35–50 |isbn= |author-link= }} }} | ||