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Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Kevin M. Schultz
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Description for Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Paperback. A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; BGL; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
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, 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. He delivers a fresh chronicle of the ‘60s and its long aftermath as well as an entertaining work of narrative history that explores these ... Read more
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, 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. He delivers a fresh chronicle of the ‘60s and its long aftermath as well as an entertaining work of narrative history that explores these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353020
SKU
V9780393353020
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About Kevin M. Schultz
Kevin M. Schultz holds a PhD in history from Berkeley and teaches twentieth-century American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Chicago.
Reviews for Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
"Schultz's book is compelling and brilliant."
Literary Review "Schultz's book is, among things, a very moving account of intellectual and political disappointment."
Prospect "Kevin Schultz evidently had a lot of fun writing this exuberant, intelligent book, and so did I reading it."
David Aaronovitch - The Times "A timely antidote to vacuous times... Brilliantly written and constructed, ... Read more
Literary Review "Schultz's book is, among things, a very moving account of intellectual and political disappointment."
Prospect "Kevin Schultz evidently had a lot of fun writing this exuberant, intelligent book, and so did I reading it."
David Aaronovitch - The Times "A timely antidote to vacuous times... Brilliantly written and constructed, ... Read more