tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187573090343842338.post4797714257051859463..comments2020-03-19T08:55:22.077-04:00Comments on A Word from the Rector: History and Harlot’s GhostNoelle York-Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12735603975530615886noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187573090343842338.post-34987097409582521892011-08-31T22:20:45.624-04:002011-08-31T22:20:45.624-04:00Geoffrey:
Harlot's Ghost is one of Mailer'...Geoffrey:<br /><br />Harlot's Ghost is one of Mailer's most accomplished books. Even better is The Armies of the Night, in my view his masterpiece, which is his non-fictional but novelistic account of the march on the Pentagon on 1967 to protest the Vietnam War. It was one of the first books to introduce the techniques of fiction into works of journalism and history. And, at 400 pages or so, is more digestible than Harlot's Ghost.<br /><br />As a very minor historical footnote: When I was an undergraduate at Queens College, City University of New York, Mailer visited our campus during one of our many springtime anti-war protests. He was running for mayor of New York and was there with his running mate, the columnist Jimmy Breslin. Both of them were nearly falling-down drunk in the middle of the afternoon.<br /><br />Mark SiegelMark Siegelnoreply@blogger.com