The Wise Blood of Norman Mailer: An Interpretation and Defense of Why Are We in Vietnam?

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Why Are We in Vietnam?, Vietnam War literature, American violence, corporate masculinity, nature and instinct, moral choice, allegory and satire

Why Are We in Vietnam? is a novel that calls for reassessment four decades after its appearance, particularly as a work of satiric allegory.

Richard Lee Fulgham

Richard Lee Fulgham was born in Germany in 1947. He received his BA in English from the University of Georgia. (1972); MA in American Literature from the University of Kentucky. (1985). He has been a professional newspaper writer and photographer, and has published approximately a dozen articles and stories in national magazines. His books include Appalachian Genesis (Bristol: Overmountain Press, 2000) and The Hogs of Cold Harbor (Philadelphia: Whitmore, 2005).