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* {{cite book |last=Vogelgesang |first=Sandy |date=1974 |title=The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Early and excellent overview of the New Left’s involvement in the anti-war movement, including Mailer’s.
* {{cite book |last=Wakefield |first=Dan |date=1992 |title=New York in the Fifties |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkinfifties00wake |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} New York City during the decade in which American society began its transmogrification.
* {{cite book |last=Wakefield |first=Dan |authormask=1 |date=1968 |title=Supernation at Peace and War: Being Certain Observations, Depositions, Testimonies, and Graffiti Gathered on a One-Man Fact-and-Fantasy Tour of the Most Powerful Nation in the World |url=https://archive.org/details/supernationatpea00wake |location=Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Account of Wakefield’s trip around the United States and his assessment of a nation moving deeper into the Vietnam War.
* {{cite book |editor-last=Weber |editor-first=Ronald |date=1974 |title=The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy |url= |location=New York |publisher=Hastings House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Early and valuable anthology of 26 reprinted pieces that debate the New Journalism.
* {{cite book |last1=Whitmer |first1=Peter O. |last2=VanWyngarden |first2=Bruce |date=1987 |title=Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture that Changed America: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson |url=https://archive.org/details/aquariusrevisite00whit |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Based on interviews with all seven.
* {{cite book |last=Wolfe |first=Tom |date=1973 |title=The New Journalism, with an Anthology |url= |editor1-last=Wolfe |editor1-first=Tom |editor2-last=Johnson |editor2-first=E. W.|location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The editors’ selections are as important as Wolfe’s apology for literary journalism and his attack on the contemporary novel.
* {{cite book |last1=Wolf |first1=Daniel |last2=Fancher |first2=Edwin |date=1962 |title=The Village Voice Reader: A Mixed Bag from the Greenwich Village Newspaper |url=https://archive.org/details/villagevoiceread00wolf |location=New York |publisher=Doubleday |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The first anthology of essays and columns from the ''Voice'', including several of Mailer’s, and Kenneth Tynan’s review of ''Advertisements for Myself'' ([[59.13]]). See [[56.1]]–[[56.17]].
* {{cite book |last=Wreszin |first=Michael |date=1994 |title=A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald |url=https://archive.org/details/rebelindefenseof00wres |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Standard biography of Mailer’s longtime friend (1949 to 1983), which includes accounts of the 1949 Waldorf conference and the 1968 march on the Pentagon. See [[49.1]].