The Armies Of the Night

by Mailer, Norman

The Armies of the Night (1968) is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning nonfiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History. Mailer essentially creates his own genre for the narrative, split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was one of only a few at the time, and received the most critical attention.The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.

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Weidenfeld and Nicolson published a First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1968. 

Signet/The New American Library published a First Edition, First Printing thus in New York, 1968.

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The Armies Of The Night.

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New York: The New American Library, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition, first printing of The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer.. Octavo, 288pp. Blue-gray cloth, title printed in red and white on spine. Stated first printing on copyright page. Illustrated end papers. Dust jacket, near fine, with $5.95 price on front… Read more about this item
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London, England: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. First British Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Nearly 20 years after the publication of "The Naked and the Dead,'' the author returned to the theme of war, this time chronicling his adventures over a four-day period in Oct. 1967 at demonstrations in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam War, followed by "an objective history… Read more about this item
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New York: The New American Library, 1968. Stated First Printing. Full black cloth with spine lettered in silver and red. Map endpapers of Washington, DC. This novel chronicles the author's adventures over the four days of the October 1967 anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Washington. Rear panel of dj has a photo of Mailer with Marcus Raskin, Noam Chomsky, Robert Lowell,… Read more about this item
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The Armies of the Night; History as a Novel: The Novel as History

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