Norman Mailer: Miami and the Siege of Chicago

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political journalism, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, American politics, literary reportage, public intellectual

A reassessment of Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968), Mailer’s treatment of the respective Republican and Democratic national conventions.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, and a variety of other media outlets. He is a political commentator and intellectual. He has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited numerous works. His recent work, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007), was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007.