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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, 70.8–70.11, 72.7, 74.20, 79.14, 96.5, 13.2, 381-94.

  • Snippet from Time, October 27, 1967, that Mailer quotes at the beginning of AON.
    Snippet from Time, October 27, 1967, that Mailer quotes at the beginning of AON.
  • Review in NYT.
    Review in NYT.

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.
  • 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.
  • Fields, Suzanne (November 14, 2007). "Recalling My Mailer Crush". Jewish World Review.
  • 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.
  • Hollowell, John (1977). Fact & Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 87–101.
  • Karl, Frederick R. (1983). American Fictions, 1940–1980. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 178–182. ISBN 0060149396.
  • Lennon, J. Michael (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 381–394.
  • Levine, David (1968). "New York Review of Books". Illustration.
  • Lodge, David (1971). "The Novelist at the Crossroads". The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP. pp. 3–34. ISBN 0801406749.
  • Lounsberry, Barbara (1990). The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction. New York: Greenwood Press. pp. 152–168.
  • Lowell, Robert (September–October 1978). "A Conversation with Ian Hamilton". American Poetry Review: 23–27.
  • — (November 23, 1967). "The March". New York Review of Books. Poem.
  • Menand, Louis (2002). "Norman Mailer in His Time". American Studies. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 146–161.
  • Meredith, Robert (Autumn 1971). "The 45-Second Piss: A Left Critique of Norman Mailer and The Armies of the Night". Modern Fiction Studies. 17: 433–438.
  • Merrill, Robert (1986). "The Armies of the Night". In Bloom, Harold. Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House. pp. 127–137.
  • Middlebrook, Jonathan (Winter 1970). "Can a Middle-aged Man with Four Wives and Six Children Be a Revolutionary?". Journal of Popular Culture. 3: 565–574.
  • Mosser, Jason (2009). "Genre-Bending in The Armies of the Night". Mailer Review. 3: 307–321.
  • Full-page advertisement containing plaudits for The Armies of the Night. June 23, 1968. New York Times Book Review. 20 excerpts.
  • Olster, Stacy (1989). Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–64.
  • Piazza, Tom (2011). "Citizen Mailer". Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America. New York: Harper Perennial. pp. 213–221. ISBN 9780062008220.
  • Raymont, Henry (March 28, 1969). "Harper's Editor Hails Polk Prize for Mailer". The New York Times.
  • Seib, Kenneth A. (Spring 1974). "Mailer's March: The Epic Structure of The Armies of the Night". Essays in Literature. 1: 89–95.
  • Smith, Kathy (2003). "Norman Mailer and the Radical Text". In Bloom, Harold. Norman Mailer: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House. pp. 181–196.
  • Taylor, Gordon O. (March 1974). "Of Adams and Aquarius". American Literature. 46: 68–82. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  • Trachtenberg, Alan (May 28, 1968). "Mailer on the Steps of the Pentagon". The Nation. pp. 701–702.
  • Vizinczey, Stephen (1986). Condemned World, Literary Kingdom. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. pp. 197–199.
  • Weber, Ronald (1980). The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. pp. 81–88.
  • Wenke, Joseph (1987). Mailer’s America. Hanover: University Press of New England. pp. 139–163.
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