Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer
Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/05/2016

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.

About Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by brian on February 22, 2015

his book is as lumpy and oversized as his heart and testes and ya just can’t ask for more. i mean, check this description of ‘professional republican’ meade alcorn: ‘Alcorn had a friendly freckled face and sandy hair, black horn-rims, a jaw which could probably crack a lobster claw in one bite, his......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 14, 2024

Miami Beach, in August of 1968, was the site of the Republican National Convention that nominated Richard Nixon for the office of President of the United States. Later that same month, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Hubert Humphrey for the same office – but not until after a......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 13, 2018

The Reporter Inside History Norman Mailer dubbed this work “an informal history of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”. It’s effectively a non-fiction account with Mailer (“the Reporter”) inserted into the narrative, sometimes inside the action and sometimes 19 floors up in his hotel ro......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on February 07, 2025

He had lived well enough to have six children, a house on the water, a good apartment, good meals, good booze, he had even come to enjoy wine. A revolutionary with taste in wine has come already half the distance from Marx to Burke. Some books grab you by the throat from the very beginning. This one......more

Goodreads review by Steve on September 22, 2018

I'm late getting back to this. I really liked it. The "book" is basically two very different panels. One, the Republican National Convention of 1968, has a more traditional feel to it, though it's punctuated by Mailer's ("the reporter") deep imaginings, coupled with sharp observation, of various Rep......more

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