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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.==== | ====''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: | Dedication and acknowledgment: “To [[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 | 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: | 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 '' | 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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| File:68-8a.jpg|Snippet from ''Time'', October 27, 1967, that Mailer quotes at the beginning of ''AON''. | |||
| File:68-8b.jpg|Review in ''NYT''. | |||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == |