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Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy. From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the American experiment as well as the threats to it...

A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters-nine never before published-that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last centuryNearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating an...

Ich sehe Alligatoren mit Posaunen!" - Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa, 1974 Die Zutaten hätten dramatischer nicht sein können: Inszeniert von einem kriminellen Boxpromoter mit Sturmfrisur (Don King) im Reich eines Diktators mit Leopardenfellmütze (Mobutu), trafen am 30. Oktober 1974 in Kinshasa im damaligen Zaire zwei schwarze amerikanische Boxer aufeinander, um sich einen epischen Kampf zu liefern. Der eine war Muhammad Ali, der seine besten Jahre ...

Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era's most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative bestThe electric and fearless essays of Norman Mailer were essential to the intellectual climate of 1960s America. Here, gathered into one volume for the first time by acclaimed Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon, are all the essential essays from the classic collections The Presidential Papers (1963), Cannibals and Christian...

Four Mailer classics in one volume for the first time, books that crackle with the creative energy and raw passions of America's most turbulent decadeNo writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable boo...

Fifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateurNo writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set...

Mit "Superman Comes to the Supermarket", seiner Reportage über John F. Kennedys Wahlkampagne 1960, schrieb Norman Mailer einen Klassiker des New Journalism. Unser Nachdruck zum 100. Geburtstag Kennedys wird ergänzt um mehr als 300 Fotos von Stars des Fotojournalismus wie Cornell Capa, Paul Schutzer und Garry Winogrand."Ein beeindruckender Blick auf Politik in Amerika."- The Washington Diplomat

Norman Mailers "Superman Comes to the Supermarket", die ursprünglich 1960 in Esquire veröffentlichte wegweisende Reportage des New Journalism, die mitten im Wahlkampf ein positives Porträt von JFK zeichnete, wird nun als Fotobuch neu entdeckt. Neben dem vollständigen Text, der JFK als "existentiellen Helden" porträtiert, enthält der Band Bilder von Kennedys politischer Kampagne und seinem Privatleben, eingefangen von Größen des Fotojournalismu...

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A genuine literary event-an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific-or more exposed-than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45, 000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them dee...

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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

I see God, " wrote Norman Mailer, "as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks." In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, rejecting both organized religion and atheism. He avows that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God, he finds fault with the Ten Commandments, and he holds that technology was the De...