Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
The Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer
Summary
A genre-bending account of the October 1967 march on the Pentagon, in which Mailer casts himself as both protagonist and ironic observer of the antiwar movement and the establishment it confronted. Combining novelistic technique with reportage, the book moves from drunken speeches and arrests to broader reflections on America's political and spiritual crisis. It is widely regarded as a defining text of the New Journalism.
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Historical Context & Significance
A tie winner. Mailer wrote himself into the story as the protagonist "Mailer," blurring the lines between fiction and reportage to capture the "inner truth" of the 1960s.