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{{byline |last=Norris |first=K. D. |abstract=The first book of ''The Armies of the Night'', “History as a Novel,” is a personal account of Mailer’s involvement in the protest as part of a platoon of American social leaders and literati, including Noam Chomsky, Benjamin Spock, Robert Lowell, Paul Goodman, Marcus Raskin, and Dwight McDonald. Through Mailer’s eyes, but told in a masterfully unsettling third-person perspective viewing everything, including the character of Mailer, we are swept up by the ''ethos'' and bounce off the egos of the protesters. For the first time, for some readers, many of these historic counterculture figures are given flesh and blood, if not realism. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr08norr}}
{{byline |last=Norris |first=K. D. |abstract=The first book of ''The Armies of the Night'', “History as a Novel,” is a personal account of Mailer’s involvement in the protest as part of a platoon of American social leaders and literati, including Noam Chomsky, Benjamin Spock, Robert Lowell, Paul Goodman, Marcus Raskin, and Dwight McDonald. Through Mailer’s eyes, but told in a masterfully unsettling third-person perspective viewing everything, including the character of Mailer, we are swept up by the ''ethos'' and bounce off the egos of the protesters. For the first time, for some readers, many of these historic counterculture figures are given flesh and blood, if not realism. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr02nor}}
{{dc|dc=N|orman Mailer who marched unabashed}} and unafraid through the 1960’s American counterculture and assailed our literary senses throughout his life, is probably cursing in his grave—and, oh, what colorfully foul words he knew how to use.
{{dc|dc=N|orman Mailer who marched unabashed}} and unafraid through the 1960’s American counterculture and assailed our literary senses throughout his life, is probably cursing in his grave—and, oh, what colorfully foul words he knew how to use.