The presidential papers

Description:

Norman Mailer’s Presidential Papers is a collection of much of his occasional writing of years 1960-1963. There are the epic essays on the 1960 Democratic convention and the first Patterson-Liston fight; some poems; a couple of interviews, one real, one imaginary; a chapter from a novel in progress; some columns done for Esquire and COMMENTARY; a speech delivered in debate with William Buckley; and a few assorted sundries. The pieces are of varying lengths, intensities, and postures, held together by the kind of introductory comments Mailer originally fashioned for Advertisements for Myself.

subjects: Civilization,  Miscellanea,  Politics and government,  Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963,  United states, civilization, 1945-

People: John F Kennedy (1917-1963),  Sonny Liston (1932-1970),  Floyd Patterson (1935-2006)

Places: United States

Times: 1945-,  1961-,  1961-1963