Armies of the Night
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Armies of the Night is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning non-fiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History
The book deals ostensibly with the October 1967 anti-Vietnam War March on the Pentagon in Washington DC. However, as with many of Mailer's works, the true subject of the book is Mailer himself. Placing himself on center-stage, flaws and all, Mailer recounts the events leading up to the March as well as his subsequent arrest and night in jail.
List of references to famous people in the book
- H. Rap Brown
- William Sloane Coffin
- Ella Collins
- Noam Chomsky
- David Dellinger
- Paul Goodman (writer)
- Abbie Hoffman
- Tuli Kupferberg
- Robert Lowell
- Sidney Lens
- Dwight Macdonald
- Norman Mailer
- A.J. Muste
- Robert Nichols
- Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Dagmar Wilson
List of references to other books in the book
- All the King's Men
- A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
- The White Negro
- Why Are We In Vietnam?
See also
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