September 15, 2019

Mailer’s Political Resonance

Themes

• Personal Responsibility (The Necessity of Criticism)
  • “When you have a great country, it’s your duty to be critical of it so it can become even greater.”
  • Cancer is an outgrowth of inaction or conformity.
• “Democracy is existential”
  • We cannot take democracy for granted because it is always in peril and changes all the time.
• Corporate Capitalism

Working Bibliography

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• Begiebing, Robert (2020). "Norman Mailer and Joseph Ellis: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy". The Mailer Review. 12 (1).
• Binelli, Mark (May 2007). "Norman Mailer". Rolling Stone. pp. 69, 72.
• Busa, Christopher (1999). "Interview with Norman Mailer". Provincetown Arts. pp. 24–32. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
• Hitchens, Christopher (1997). "Norman Mailer: A Minority of One". New Left Review. 22 (March/April): 115–128.
• Mailer, Norman (2013). "Immodest Proposals". Mind of an Outlaw. New York: Random House.
• — (2003). Why Are We at War?. New York: Random House.
• Mailer, Norman; Mailer, John Buffalo (2006). The Big Empty. New York: Nation Books.
• McAfee, Andrew (October 23, 2019). "Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff". Wired. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
• Pritchard, William (November 24, 2016). "Stormin' Norman". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
• Sheed, Wilfred (1971). "Norman Mailer: Genius or Nothing". The Morning After: Selected Essays and Reviews. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 9–17.
• Wade, Francis (August 12, 2019). "Reading 'The Armies of the Night' in an Age of Youth Protest". LA Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-09-15.