Armies of the Night

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book historical narrative nonfiction novel

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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Norman Mailer → notableWork → Armies of the Night →

Mailer → notableWork → Armies of the Night →

subject surface form: Norman Mailer