Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer\"s essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary....

Norman Mailer\"s acclaimed biography of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood\"s iconic leading lady - available for the first time in mass-market paperback \"Genius\" The New York Times In 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome....

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....

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty....

Based on Mailer\"s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead\" is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare....

October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer....

Mailer\"s superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon \"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.\" A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission....

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer\"s The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world\"s greatest boxers, both in and out of the ring, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Norman Mailer\"s The Fight focuses on the 1974 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire....

In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years....

And the moon came nearer: Journey back to July 20, 1969 It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a......

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer’s seminal text with spectacular photography—from the archives of NASA, LIFE magazine, and many other sources—to create a unique tribute to the......

Now Taschen has paired Mailer\"s original text with Bert Stern\"s photographs from the legendary Last Sitting-widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken-to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world\"s most famous, a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation....

A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of \"The Naked and the Dead and The Fight\"....

\\\"And the Moon came nearer...\\\" A unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time \\\"MoonFire is the greatest book I have ever seen. The photography is unparalleled... It is more than just a book, it is an experience....

Book DescriptionAn unexpected collection from Norman Mailer—a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls “casual pleasures”—witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art....