A collection of Mailer's essays on literature, politics, architecture, science, and war. Underlying this collection of his views is the fundamental question: how do we live in America in this age - what is the quality of our experience? In this collection are Mailer's famous interpretation of the Goldwater Convention in San Francisco; his devastating analysis of the United States' policy in Vietnam; his views on sexual attitudes in America; the classic interview he gave to the Paris Review; a sheaf of new poems; a new startling philosophical dialogue; and two brillant short stories, including "The Last Night," the first work he has ever written. Our world, Mailer says in his introductory remarks, is "a world of such hypercivilization (that it) is a world not of adverturers, entrepreneurs, settlers...and other egocentric types of a dynamic society, but it is instead a world of whirlpools and formlessness where two hughe types begin to reemerge, types there at the beginning of it all: Cannibals and Christians." Tipped in color frontispiece. Blue cloth boards and spine, white and gilt lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, black, color illustrated.Mild rubbing to lower edge, spine end and rear joint, 1 1/2 inch crease near lower joint. Upper spine end 1/4 closed tear, bumped. Slight soil area to rear lower left corner. All else clean, tightly bound, no writing. In protective mylar cover. Tall 8 vo., 400 pp. First Edition

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