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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Type
- Social Political History United States
- Ex Libris
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Book Series
- New York Review Books Classics
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Era
- 1960s
- Edition
- 2007
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Personalize
- No
- ISBN
- 9781590172964
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590172965
ISBN-13
9781590172964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63899713
Product Key Features
Book Title
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, United States / 20th Century, Political Process / Political Parties
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-005743
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer'sMiami and the Siege of Chicago...which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen." --A. O. Scott,The New York Times One "of the era's definitional books." --The Nation "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."--Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." -The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." -The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." -Book World "A political classic" -The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." -The New York Review of Books(reviewed withThe Armies of the Night), One "of the era's definitional books." --The Nation "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."--Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." -The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." -The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." -Book World "A political classic" -The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." -The New York Review of Books(reviewed withThe Armies of the Night), "Don't skim...if you dash your way through 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago,' Mailer's masterful account of the upheaval that occurred 40 years ago when Republicans and Democrats met in those two cities, there to select their presidential nominees, you'll miss a lot. First published in 1968, and reissued earlier this month by New York Review Books, Mailer's report glows with descriptions of the people and the places whose permanent identities were forged in the hot furnace of that tragic, fateful year. To understand 1968, you must read Mailer..." --Chicago Tribune "Our Democratic primaries are run the way they are now mainly because of the way they were run then...The almost-closing line of the book is the prediction that Mailer wishes he had made to Eugene McCarthy's daughter: 'Dear Miss, we will be fighting for forty years.' He got that right, among many other things." --Christopher Hitchens,The Atlantic "The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer'sMiami and the Siege of Chicago...which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen." --A. O. Scott,The New York Times One "of the era's definitional books." --The Nation "Wrong as often as he was right, Mailer seems so brave precisely because he was so ready to risk looking foolish. InMiami and the Siege of Chicago,which he wrote on assignment forHarper's, Mailer was not only perfectly attuned to the moment but prescient." --The Boston Phoenix "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."--Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." -The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." -The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." -Book World "A political classic" -The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." -The New York Review of Books(reviewed withThe Armies of the Night), "Mailer was a poet laureate of the punch, and this classic New Journalism--style report on the '68 conventions sizes up presidential wanna-bes as if they were a batch of second-rate palookas... His descriptions alone are reason to read this still-relevant book." --Time Out New York "Don't skim...if you dash your way through 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago,' Mailer's masterful account of the upheaval that occurred 40 years ago when Republicans and Democrats met in those two cities, there to select their presidential nominees, you'll miss a lot. First published in 1968, and reissued earlier this month by New York Review Books, Mailer's report glows with descriptions of the people and the places whose permanent identities were forged in the hot furnace of that tragic, fateful year. To understand 1968, you must read Mailer..." --Chicago Tribune "Our Democratic primaries are run the way they are now mainly because of the way they were run then...The almost-closing line of the book is the prediction that Mailer wishes he had made to Eugene McCarthy's daughter: 'Dear Miss, we will be fighting for forty years.' He got that right, among many other things." --Christopher Hitchens,The Atlantic "The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer'sMiami and the Siege of Chicago...which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen." --A. O. Scott,The New York Times One "of the era's definitional books." --The Nation "Wrong as often as he was right, Mailer seems so brave precisely because he was so ready to risk looking foolish. InMiami and the Siege of Chicago,which he wrote on assignment forHarper's, Mailer was not only perfectly attuned to the moment but prescient." --The Boston Phoenix "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."--Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." -The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." -The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." -Book World "A political classic" -The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." -The New York Review of Books(reviewed withThe Armies of the Night), "Mailer was a poet laureate of the punch, and this classic New Journalism--style report on the '68 conventions sizes up presidential wanna-bes as if they were a batch of second-rate palookas... His descriptions alone are reason to read this still-relevant book." -- Time Out New York "Don't skim...if you dash your way through 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago,' Mailer's masterful account of the upheaval that occurred 40 years ago when Republicans and Democrats met in those two cities, there to select their presidential nominees, you'll miss a lot. First published in 1968, and reissued earlier this month by New York Review Books, Mailer's report glows with descriptions of the people and the places whose permanent identities were forged in the hot furnace of that tragic, fateful year. To understand 1968, you must read Mailer..." -- Chicago Tribune "Our Democratic primaries are run the way they are now mainly because of the way they were run then...The almost-closing line of the book is the prediction that Mailer wishes he had made to Eugene McCarthy's daughter: 'Dear Miss, we will be fighting for forty years.' He got that right, among many other things." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic "The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer's Miami and the Siege of Chicago... which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen." --A. O. Scott, The New York Times One "of the era's definitional books." -- The Nation "Wrong as often as he was right, Mailer seems so brave precisely because he was so ready to risk looking foolish. In Miami and the Siege of Chicago, which he wrote on assignment for Harper's , Mailer was not only perfectly attuned to the moment but prescient." -- The Boston Phoenix "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."-- Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." - The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." - The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." - Book World "A political classic" - The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." - The New York Review of Books (reviewed with The Armies of the Night), "Don't skim...if you dash your way through 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago,' Mailer's masterful account of the upheaval that occurred 40 years ago when Republicans and Democrats met in those two cities, there to select their presidential nominees, you'll miss a lot. First published in 1968, and reissued earlier this month by New York Review Books, Mailer's report glows with descriptions of the people and the places whose permanent identities were forged in the hot furnace of that tragic, fateful year. To understand 1968, you must read Mailer..." --Chicago Tribune "The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer'sMiami and the Siege of Chicago...which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen." --A. O. Scott,The New York Times One "of the era's definitional books." --The Nation "Dazzling accounts of the Republican and Democratic party conventions of 1968..."--Newsday "For historians who wish for the presence of a world-class literary witness at crucial moments in history, Mailer in Miami and Chicago was heaven-sent." -The Washington Post "This is an excellent account of the conventions...Mailer sets the scene sensually like Dickens...his vignettes have imperial authority." -The New York Times Book Review A "triumphantly vivid work of journalism." -Book World "A political classic" -The Boston Globe "This is Mailer's classic account of the Democratic and Republican conventions of 1968. It is an insightful portrayal of the politicians and the turbulent time." -United Press International "A tense balance between social and literary observation which often reads like a good, old-fashioned novel in which suspense, character, plot revelations, and pungently describable action abound...The peculiar power of these books comes not from the fact that Mailer offers us better writing than that to which we are generally accustomed in politics, but, rather, from the uncanny way in which he has managed to maintain in these works the stylistic play and form of the most complex literary fiction." -The New York Review of Books(reviewed withThe Armies of the Night)
Dewey Decimal
329/.0221/0973
Synopsis
1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate, while in September, Democrats in Chicago backed the ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey. TVs across the country showed antiwar protesters filling the streets of Chicago and the police running amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike. In "Miami and the Siege of Chicago," Norman Mailer, America s most protean and provocative writer, brings a novelist s eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today s bitterly divided country arose.", 1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate, while in September, Democrats in Chicago backed the ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey. TVs across the country showed antiwar protesters filling the streets of Chicago and the police running amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike. In Miami and the Siege of Chicago , Norman Mailer, America's most protean and provocative writer, brings a novelist's eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today's bitterly divided country arose.
LC Classification Number
JK2353 1968.M34 2008
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- y***y (684)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI am originally from Louisiana and frequently ate at The Cajun Cafe. I never had a bad meal from there. I lived the Lemon Bread Pudding with Chantilly Cream and the Sweet Potato Muffins! The cookbook is in excellent condition and I will enjoy this cookbook for years to come. I highly recommend this seller!