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Armies of the Night is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning non-fiction novel written by Norman Mailer and sub-titled History as a Novel/The Novel as History Armies of the Night book cover This image is a book cover. ... Armies of the Night book cover This image is a book cover. ... Listen to this article (help) Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The National Book Awards is the most important literary prize in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and is presently awarded in each of four... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and, along with Truman Capote, is considered an innovator of the nonfictional novel. ...

The book deals ostensibly with the October 1967 anti-Vietnam War March on the Pentagon in Washington DC. However, as with many of Mailer's works, the true subject of the book is Mailer himself. Placing himself on center-stage, flaws and all, Mailer recounts the events leading up to the March as well as his subsequent arrest and night in jail. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) United States of America South Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand the Philippines Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) Commanders Strength ~1,200,000 (1968) ~420,000 (1968) Casualties South Vietnamese dead: 1,250,000+ US dead: 58,226 US... ...

List of references to famous people in the book

• H. Rap Brown
• William Sloane Coffin
• Ella Collins
• Noam Chomsky
• David Dellinger
• Paul Goodman (writer)
• Abbie Hoffman
• Tuli Kupferberg
• Robert Lowell
• Sidney Lens
• Dwight Macdonald
• Norman Mailer
• A.J. Muste
• Robert Nichols
• Dr. Benjamin Spock
• Dagmar Wilson
• Tuli Kupferberg

H. Rap Brown in 1967 H. Rap Brown (born October 4, 1943) came to prominence in the 1960s as a civil rights worker, black activist, and Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party. ... Rev. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... David Dellinger after his arrest for failing to report for his World War II draft physical David Dellinger (August 22, 1915-May 25, 2004) was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of most influential American radicals in 20th century. ... Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was a poet, writer, public intellectual. ... Abbie Hoffman, New York City, 1970. ... Tuli Kupferberg (born September 28, 1923) is an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, and publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs. ... Robert Lowell Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. ... Sidney Lens is an American journalist and author, best known for his 1977 book, The Day Before Doomsday, which warns of nuclear annihilation. ... Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was an American writer, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and, along with Truman Capote, is considered an innovator of the nonfictional novel. ... Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885_February 11, 1967) was a socialist active in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. ... Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893-1944) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, and a playwright. ... Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903–March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. ... Tuli Kupferberg (born September 28, 1923) is an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, and publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs. ...

List of references to other books in the book

• All the King's Men
• A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
• The White Negro
• Why Are We In Vietnam?

All the Kings Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, published in 1946 and made into a film in 1949 and again in 2006. ...

See also

• CORE
• Sixties
• SNCC
• War in Vietnam