An American Dream Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966: Difference between revisions

|align=left| December  || style="background:#fed;"| NM publishes the first of six columns of reflections on [[w:Martin Buber|Martin Buber’s]] [[w:Tales of the Hasidim|''Tales of the Hasidim'']] in [[Commentary|''Commentary'']].

|align=left| February   || style="background:#fee;"| [[Ten Thousand Words a Minute|“Ten Thousand Words a Minute”]], NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in ''Esquire''.

|align=left|May   31 || style="background:#fee;"| NM presents [[An Existential Evening|“An Existential Evening”]] at [[w:Carnegie Hall|Carnegie Hall]], discussing the [[w:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[w:John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] and [[w:Communism|Communism]] with the audience.

|align=left| January   29  || style="background:#dfd;"| '''American premiere of [[Dr. Strangelove|“Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”]]'''.

|align=left| October   12 || style="background:#dfd;"| An advertisement for ''An American Dream'' in book form appears in [[Publishers Weekly|''Publishers’ Weekly'']] and gives a January 1965 publication date.

|align=left| March   19 || style="background:#ffd;"| [[The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer|“The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer”]], a positive review by [[w:John W. Aldridge|John W. Aldridge]], appears in [[Life (magazine)|''Life'']]. NM pays to reprint the heart of the review in the spring number of [[Partisan Review|''Partisan Review'']] to “accompany” [[w:Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)|Elizabeth Hardwick’s]] negative review.

|align=left| April   1 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM travels to Alaska for a four-day visit, speaking at the [[w:University of Alaska system|University of Alaska]].  He uses his impressions for his 1967 novel, [[Why Are We in Vietnam?|''Why Are We in Vietnam?'']]

|align=left| April   11 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number eight on the bestseller list of the [[The New York Times Book Review|''New York Times Book Review'']].

|align=left| July   15 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks at a [[w:Teach-in|Harvard teach-in against the Vietnam War]].

|align=left| August   6 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''[[w:Voting Rights Act of 1965|Voting Right Act of 1965]] signed into law by President Johnson.'''

|align=left| Late December   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM addresses the [[w:Modern Language Association|Modern Language Association]] meeting in Chicago on the American novel. His talk is published in the March 1966 issue of ''Commentary''.

|align=left| March   10 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s second son, [[w:Stephen Mailer|Stephen McLeod Mailer]], is born to Beverly.