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Advertisements for Myself PMC by Norman Mailer
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of ...Show more
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. ...Show more
John F. Kennedy- Superman Comes to the Supermarket by Norman Mailer; Nina Wiener (Editor); J. Michael Lennon (Contribution by)
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Category: Politics
A time for greatness: An inside look into John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign for America With his Hollywood good looks, boundless enthusiasm, and mesmeric media presence, John F. Kennedy was destined to capture the imaginations of the more than 70 million Americans who watched the nation's first te ...Show more
Knockout: The Art of Boxing by Ken Regan; Muhammad Ali (Foreword by); Liam Neeson (Introduction by); Budd Schulberg (Afterword by); Norman Mailer (Commentaries by)
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Category: Photography
Chronicling the legacy of boxing's biggest names--including the great Muhammad Ali--and their impact on "the sweet science," Knockout: The Art of Boxing pays tribute to Ken Regan's incomparable photography and coverage of the sport. Ken Regan was a young photographer in 1964 when he covered Muhammad ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: PMC: An Informal History of the Republican and democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer; Bert Stern (Photographer)
175.00 AUD
Category: Photography
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn.Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer''s original text with Bert Stern''s photographs from the ...Show more
Norman Mailer: MoonFire, 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
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Category: Science & Natural History
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. the Fight by Norman Mailer; J. Michael Lennon; Neil Leifer (Photographer); Howard L. Bingham (Photographer)
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Category: Sport
On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was volubl ...Show more
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the ...Show more
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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Category: True Crime | Series: Arena Bks.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
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