Buckley and Mailer - The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties

Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. were towering figures who argued publicly about every major issue of the 1960s: the counterculture, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, the Cold War. Behind the scenes, the two were close friends and trusted confidantes who lived surprisingly parallel lives. In Buckley and Mailer, Kevin M. Schultz delves into their personal archives to tell the rich story of their friendship, arguments and the tumultuous decade they did so much to shape. He delivers a fresh chronicle of the '60s and its long aftermath as well as an entertaining work of narrative history that explores these extraordinary figures' contrasting visions of America and the future.

About the author

Kevin M. Schultz holds a PhD in history from Berkeley and teaches twentieth-century American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin M. Schultz, Schultz Kevin M.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2016
• EAN: 9780393353020
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35302-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969