The Armies of the Night (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Mailer
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: New journalism
- Time of Work: October, 1967
- Setting: Washington, D.C., Virginia, and New York
- Principal Characters: Norman Mailer, Mitchell Goodman, Edward de Grazia, David Dellinger, Robert Lowell, Dwight Macdonald, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Benjamin Spock, Walter Teague, Hirschkop, Scaife, Beverly Bentley
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Virginia
The Story:
On a September morning in 1967, Norman Mailer received a phone call from Mitchell Goodman, an old friend and a political activist, urging his participation in a demonstration the following month against the continuing Vietnam War. Mailer reluctantly agreed and, two days before the scheduled rally at the Pentagon, flew to Washington, D.C., from his home in New York.
Thursday evening, before going on to an assembly at the Ambassador Theater, Mailer attended a cocktail party at the home of a liberal academic couple. Discomfited by their bland benevolence, Mailer,...
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