Why Are We in Vietnam?

Canon Fire The American Post-Modernist Movement is preoccupied with establishing a canon of masterpieces that will replace any more widely-recognised pre-existing Modernist canon. In order to inflate the reputations of William H. Gass, William Gaddis and Alexander Theroux, it denigrated and then omitt......more

A young man tells about a hunting trip he went on with his father. For me, one interesting thing about the novel is the way that, beneath the Oedipal tensions on the level of the action and in the narrator’s commentary, Mailer represents the generational struggles of the 1960s as a struggle between......more

Why are We in Vietnam is Norman Mailer’s novel protesting the war, first published in 1967. It is the last novel he wrote before writing his famous non-fiction accounts of the march on the Pentagon and the 1968 political conventions. Mailer was strongly opposed to the war and used a very creative, h......more

The title is decieving...this book is not exactly about Vietnem, its about the psychological and sociological repercussions of that war on American society, and the young people faced with the prospect of that war. You have to read the whole thing cover to cover to completely understand it, but once......more

in a way mailer's stupid books make me love him more than his great ones.......more