Armies of the Night

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Armies of the Night is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel that blends history and personal narrative to chronicle the 1967 anti–Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.

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instanceOf book ⓘ
historical narrative ⓘ
nonfiction novel ⓘ
author Norman Mailer ⓘ
awardReceived National Book Award for Arts and Letters ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction ⓘ
surface form: Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
basedOn real historical events ⓘ
centralEvent March on the Pentagon ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed ⓘ
depicts U.S. government response to protest ⓘ
antiwar demonstrators ⓘ
dividedInto Book One: History as a Novel ⓘ
Book One: History as a Novel ⓘ
surface form: Book Two: The Novel as History
featuresCharacter Norman Mailer ⓘ
genre New Journalism ⓘ
nonfiction ⓘ
political literature ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn subsequent political nonfiction ⓘ
hasTheme media and spectacle ⓘ
political protest ⓘ
role of the intellectual in politics ⓘ
self-portraiture ⓘ
includedIn 20th-century American literature canon ⓘ
libraryOfCongressClassification E846 .M34 ⓘ
literaryMovement New Journalism ⓘ
literaryStyle blend of history and personal narrative ⓘ
mediaType print ⓘ
narrativePerspective first person ⓘ
NationalBookAwardYear 1969 ⓘ
notableFor mixing third-person and first-person treatment of Norman Mailer as a character ⓘ
oclcNumber 408802 ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
pageCount 288 ⓘ
publicationYear 1968 ⓘ
publisher New American Library ⓘ
World Publishing Company ⓘ
PulitzerPrizeYear 1969 ⓘ
setting Washington, D.C. ⓘ
subject 1967 March on the Pentagon ⓘ
Vietnam War ⓘ
anti–Vietnam War movement ⓘ
subtitle History as a Novel, the Novel as History ⓘ
timePeriod October 1967 ⓘ

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