Miami and the Siege of Chicago - An Informal History of Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Informationen zum Autor Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead , The Deer Park , Why Are We in Vietnam? , The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night , A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon ) and The Fight . He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize. Klappentext Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead , The Deer Park , Why Are We in Vietnam? , The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night , A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon ) and The Fight . He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize. Zusammenfassung 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! the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok! beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike! all broadcast on live television! and captured in these pages by one of America's fiercest intellects.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Mailer
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780241340530
• ISBN: 978-0-241-34053-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, FICTION / Literary, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, History of the Americas, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1960 to c 1969, Elections & referenda, Demonstrations & protest movements, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Elections and referenda