{"product_id":"9781598535570","title":"Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, are two novels, two booklength masterpieces of new journalism, and thirty-three essays. \u003cb\u003eFour Books of the 1960s\u003c\/b\u003e presents \u003ci\u003eAn American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violence;\u003ci\u003e Why Are We in Vietnam?\u003c\/i\u003e, in which a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war; and the acclaimed \"non-fiction novel\" \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award) and its follow-up \u003ci\u003eMiami and the Siege of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e, on-the-scene\/in-the-scene accounts of an antiwar march on the Pentagon and the party conventions of 1968. In these revolutionary books Mailer cast himself as a player in the drama he reports, bringing a sharp and merciless eye on the decade's political upheavals. In \u003cb\u003eCollected Essays of the 1960s \u003c\/b\u003eacclaimed Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon gathers for the first time all the essential essays from the classic collections \u003ci\u003eThe Presidential Papers\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eCannibals and Christians\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), and \u003ci\u003eExistential Errands \u003c\/i\u003e(1972), each a fascinating window on one of the most extraordinary and tumultuous decades in the nation's history. A self-appointed exorcist of the culture's demons and an unrestrained mythologizer of his own identity, Mailer contemplated and often skewered icons of politics and literature, charted psychosexual undercurrents and covert power plays, and gloried in the exercise of a pugnacious prose style that was all his own. Whether writing about Jackie Kennedy or Sonny Liston, the realist tradition in America or the internal culture wars of the Republican Party, the death of Ernest Hemingway or the battle against censorship, Mailer was always ready to intervene in what he called \"the years of the plague.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062094348528,"sku":"9781598535570","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598535570_p0.jpg?v=1763814264","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598535570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}