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Sto caricando le informazioni... Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixtiesdi Kevin M. Schultz
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Imagine a time when public intellectuals debated in college auditoriums instead of having to be escorted through secret tunnels. Imagine writers as good as Buckley and Mailer offering plenty of unbelievably great--and regrettable--sentences in pages and pages of their work that appeared on a regular basis. And imagine two fiercely proud and often arrogant men on opposite sides of the spectrum having enough respect for each other's intelligence and confidence in their own that they could actually become friends. Such is the premise of Buckley and Mailer, a terrific portrait of the pair. The idea of garden-variety conservatives and liberals getting along and engaging in a genuine exchange of ideas seems like a pipe dream now--especially since writers like these are nowadays hard to find. Schultz is very good about the eras, the day-to-day events, and the ways in which Buckley and Mailer became "Buckley" and "Mailer" as their celebrity increased. There are also terrific stories in here, such as Mailer's run for mayor of NYC with Jimmy Breslin. (Their campaign slogan: "No more bullshit!")This book made me want to reread some of Buckley's and Mailer's work and some that I haven't, such as Why Are We in Vietnam? and The Unmaking of a Mayor. Wholly enjoyable and highly recommended. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. 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, historian 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. From their Playboy-sponsored debate before the Patterson-Liston heavyweight fight in 1962 to their campaigns for mayor of New York City to their confrontations at Truman Capote's Black-and-White Ball, over the March on the Pentagon, and at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Schultz 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" -- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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