408 records matched your query
02722aam a22003135i 4500 001 CE5298D4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 221110s2023 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022949744 020 $a 1956763376 020 $a 9781956763379 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Mailer, Norman, $d 1923- $e author. 245 12 $a A mysterious country $b the grace and fragility of American democracy / $c Norman Mailer, J. Michael Lennon, John Buffalo Mailer. $h book 250 $a First. 263 $a 2301 264 1 $a New York : $b Arcade Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a xxiii, 298 pages $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy. From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the American experiment as well as the threats to it-from autocratic leaders and a complacent citizenry, from violent protest and radical conservative assaults on it, from "soft fascism" and the ills of racism and poverty. In the sharp and impassioned language of a political Cassandra and with the eye of a novelist and journalist, he explored the underlying psychological, social, and economic causes of the country's fragile polity and offered urgent prescriptions for its reinvigoration. A Mysterious Country is a carefully selected collection of Mailer's most incisive-and sometimes remarkably prophetic-commentary on American democracy and what must be done to safeguard it. The anthology draws on both published and unpublished sources, from Mailer's great works of narrative nonfiction and novels as well as essays, interviews, letters, speeches, and talk show appearances. It includes pungent remarks on every president from FDR through George W. Bush, as well as correspondence with several. Throughout, what shines through is Mailer's passion for our democratic project-as well as the freedom that comes with it-and a keen awareness of its potential for failure, its virtues, and what is required of us to keep it intact"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a United States Social conditions 20th century 650 $a Democracy United States History 20th century 655 $a essays 700 1 $a Lennon, J. Michael, $e editor. 700 1 $a Mailer, John Buffalo, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l AFPD266 $d 20240517010127.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE5298D4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search