Book
Collected essays of the 1960s
Publication Information
New York, NY : The Library of America, [2018]
Physical Description
xii, 513 pages ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
"This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book"--Note, page 471.
Contents
- Superman comes to the supermarket
- An open letter to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Fidel Castro
- An evening with Jackie Kennedy, or, The Wild West of the East
- The big bite. November and December, 1962 ; January and March, 1963
- The debate with William Buckley : the real meaning of the right wing in America
- Ten thousand words a minute
- Punching Papa : a review of That summer in Paris
- Responses and reactions II
- The big bite. April, May, August, 1963
- Some children of the goddess
- A television show with Nelson Algren
- The leading man : a review of J.F.K.: the man and the myth
- The case against McCarthy : a review of The group
- A statement for Architectural forum
- A vote for Bobby K.
- In the red light : a history of the Republican convention in 1964
- My hope for America : a review of a book by Lyndon B. Johnson
- A piece for The New York Times
- A happy solution to Vietnam : from a Partisan Review symposium
- Introducing our argument
- The argument reinvigorated
- Our argument at last presented
- The playwright as critic
- The short fiction of Norman Mailer
- The saint and the psychopath
- Homage to El Loco
- Up the family tree
- An open letter to Richard Nixon
- Looking for the meat and potatoes : thoughts on Black power
- An instrument for the city
- Foreword to The end of obscenity
- Appendix : prefaces to The presidential papers
- A prefatory paper : heroes and leaders (1963)
- Preface to the Bantam paperback edition (May 1964)
- Preface to the Berkley paperback edition (October 1976)
- Chronolgy.