Time of Our Time

Name: Time of Our Time
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ISBN: 9780375754913

ISBN-10: 0375754911

ISBN-13: 9780375754913

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Authors: Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer'sThe Time of Our Timeis a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America's greatest writers. Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last fifty years. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot's Ghost as well as portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon as they appeared…

Book details

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the…

Foreword
Acknowledgments and Appreciations
Prelude - I	p. 3
Boxing with Hemingway	p. 3
Prelude - II	p. 5
Our Man at Harvard	p. 5
The Second World War - I	p. 9
The Attack Across the River	p. 9
The Second World War - II	p. 33
The Four Dead Germans	p. 33
The Second World War - III	p. 39
The Death of Mary Gallagher	p. 39
Aftermath	p. 48
Portrait - I	p. 50
Dorothy Parker	p. 50
The Second Novel	p. 54
Preface to Barbary Shore	p. 54
Excerpts from Barbary Shore	p. 55
The Cold War - I	p. 61
Lunch at 21	p. 61
The Cold War - II	p. 82
The Man Who Studied Yoga	p. 82
The Cold War - III	p. 109
The Face of the Rock	p. 109
Hollywood - I	p. 131
Herman Teppis at the Laguna Room	p. 131
Getting to Know You - I	p. 175
Miking It	p. 175
Getting to Know You - II	p. 177
Homage to El Loco	p. 177
The Cold War - IV	p. 194
Imbibing Thursdays	p. 194
More Than a Bit of Violence in Me	p. 207
Literary Pain and Shame	p. 207
Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers	p. 209
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster	p. 211
Uruguay - I	p. 231
The Car Windows Were Clouded	p. 231
Uruguay - II	p. 239
A Course in Counterespionage	p. 239
Getting to Know you - III	p. 282
Night Beat	p. 282
Portrait - II	p. 287
Truman Capote	p. 287
A State of Mind as Declared in 1959	p. 294
The Shits Are Killing Us	p. 294
Hip, Hell, and the Navigator	p. 295
Hollywood - II	p. 300
The Jewish Princess	p. 300
The Time of Her Time	p. 318
Convention Time	p. 343
Modene - I	p. 343
Superman Comes to the Supermarket - I	p. 345
Modene - II	p. 357
Superman Comes to the Supermarket - II	p. 361
First Lady in Waiting	p. 367
Superman Comes to the Supermarket - III	p. 374
Modene - III	p. 376
The Shadow of the Crime	p. 384
A Word from the Author	p. 384
An Open Letter to Fidel Castro	p. 385
Cuba	p. 394
Washington - I: Preparing for the Bay of Pigs	p. 394
Washington - II: Until Just Before the Bay of Pigs	p. 396
Miami - I: The Day After the Bay of Pigs	p. 400
Washington - III: Keeping Up with Modene	p. 403
Miami - II: Artime and Castro	p. 409
Miami - III: Poisoning Castro	p. 418
New York - I: Whom?	p. 424
Hollywood - III	p. 426
Marilyn and Arthur Miller	p. 426
Found Objects - I	p. 446
A Mighty Mother	p. 446
Found Objects - II	p. 451
Oswald and Marina in Minsk	p. 451
10,000 Words a Minute	p. 456
Journalists	p. 456
The Mafia	p. 463
The Death of Benny Paret	p. 464
Kennedy, Castro, and Oswald	p. 470
The Six Time Zones Between Dallas and Paris	p. 470
Fort Worth to Dallas	p. 475
A High-Powered Rifle	p. 477
A Visit to Lubyanka	p. 480
Terribly Bad Characters	p. 484
A Hero to Himself	p. 488
The Widow's Elegy	p. 492
The Third Widow	p. 495
An American Dream	p. 498
Conservatism and Liberalism	p. 529
A Debate with William Buckley	p. 529
My Hope for America: A Review of a book by Lyndon B. Johnson	p. 540
Excerpt from a Speech at Berkeley on Vietnam Day	p. 545
A Happy Solution to Vietnam	p. 552
Why Are We in Vietnam?	p. 557
On the Art of the Absurd	p. 584
Metaphor Versus Science	p. 584
The Armies of the Night	p. 589
The Liberal Party	p. 590
Toward a Theater of Ideas	p. 602
A Transfer of Power	p. 615
The Marshal and the Nazi	p. 624
Miami and the Siege of Chicago	p. 631
Bobby Kennedy	p. 631
Gene McCarthy in Cambridge	p. 636
Miami Beach, August 2-8	p. 639
Chicago, August 24-29	p. 660
Property	p. 667
A Massacre on Michigan Boulevard	p. 686
Convention's End	p. 696
Of a Fire on the Moon	p. 704
The Psychology of Astronauts	p. 704
Wernher Von Braun	p. 719
Red and Mollie	p. 729
Lift-off	p. 734
The Greatest Week	p. 740
A Dream of the Future's Face	p. 761
Women's Liberation	p. 773
The Raging Affair: Kate Millett and Henry Miller	p. 773
Millett and D. H. Lawrence	p. 790
Brooding over Abortion	p. 805
Togetherness	p. 809
The Cavett Show with Gore Vidal and Janet Flanner	p. 810
Four More Years	p. 828
St. George	p. 828
Candidate Emeritus	p. 832
A Visit to Dr. Kissinger	p. 836
Pat Nixon	p. 843
Nixon Comes to Miami	p. 846
Watergate	p. 851
Into the Credibility Gap	p. 851
Interview with Ehrlichman	p. 854
A Harlot High and Low	p. 866
Nixon's Fall	p. 877
The Faith of Graffiti	p. 880
The Fight	p. 903
Bantu Philosophy	p. 903
King of the Flunkies	p. 908
The Run	p. 913
The Impresario	p. 921
The Dressing Room	p. 925
Right Hand Leads	p. 929
The Man in the Rigging	p. 936
A Long Collapsing Two Seconds	p. 942
Portrait - III	p. 948
Christ, Satan, and the Presidential Candidate	p. 948
The Executioner's Song	p. 960
Brenda, Johnny, and Gary	p. 960
Gary and Nicole	p. 971
The Guns	p. 991
Back in Jail	p. 996
Gilmore and Gibbs	p. 1015
The Embalming	p. 1024
Amateurs - I	p. 1030
Excerpts from Tough Guys Don't Dance	p. 1030
Amateurs - II	p. 1045
The Best Move Lies Close to the Worst	p. 1045
Huckleberry Finn - Alive At 100	p. 1053
A Folly Repeated	p. 1059
A Speech on Salman Rushdie	p. 1059
The Best of Abbie Hoffman	p. 1063
Children of the Pied Piper	p. 1065
A Review of American Psycho	p. 1065
Creationism Revisited	p. 1078
How the Wimp Won the War	p. 1080
By Heaven Inspired	p. 1092
Portrait - IV	p. 1114
Madonna	p. 1114
Portrait - V: Clinton and Dole	p. 1136
The War of the Oxymorons	p. 1136
How the Pharaoh Beat Bogey	p. 1151
The Battle of Kadesh	p. 1175
Nefertiri and Menenhetet	p. 1215
In Preface to the Gospel - I	p. 1223
An Interview on Existentialism and Karma	p. 1223
In Preface to the Gospel - II	p. 1228
A Jewish Limb on the Judeo-Christian Ethic: Miracles	p. 1228
In Preface to the Gospel - III	p. 1237
The Communication of Christ	p. 1237
The Gospel According to the Son	p. 1240
John the Baptist and the Devil	p. 1240
Faith and Lack of Faith	p. 1253
Judas	p. 1254
An Entrance into Jerusalem	p. 1256
A Dialogue with a Scribe	p. 1261
Mary Magdalene	p. 1264
A Resurrection	p. 1268
After Death Comes Limbo	p. 1272
The Harbors of the Moon	p. 1277
Appendix	p. 1279
Rounding Sexgate	p. 1280
A Man Half Full	p. 1285
Sources and Permission Credits	p. 1301
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