Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer [1968 FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING]

Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1968] SIGNET / NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY

Nice & tightly bound vintage mass market paperback in very good condition.  

Minimal wear to cover however there is visible tanning as well as to pages. 

First dozen pages or so of book have a thin vertical indent / crease across them.   Otherwise, excellent. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award...

Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak.

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.