Considering Mailer in the Post-Aquarian Age
Keywords:
Mailer’s legacy, free speech and political correctness, libertarian socialism, Of a Fire on the Moon, personal reading history, contradiction and dualityAbstract
Norman Mailer was notably a writer for his times, whose greatest productivity and notoriety ran concurrently with the zenith of American ambition and achievement. His career began as the United States rose to the top of the post-World War II global heap as a superpower and Mailer was there to chronicle that in a distinctively masculine American voice. A writer recalls the influence of Norman Mailer.