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	<title>The Norman Mailer Society &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Eyewitness to the Firing Squad</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2010/04/27/eyewitness-to-the-firing-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gary gilmore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Utah man elects to be executed in a hail of gunfire, Lawrence Schiller recalls his last talks with condemned man Gary Gilmore and what he witnessed as Gilmore chose to die by firing squad. Read the full article on The Daily Beast.]]></description>
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		<title>Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/11/19/considering-norman-mailer-and-his-work-a-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/11/19/considering-norman-mailer-and-his-work-a-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer&#8217;s second novel, is his article &#8220;Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.&#8221; Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy&#8217;s recent &#8220;The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)&#8221; &#8212; mostly a commentary on the &#8220;socialist&#8221; Mailer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still at War</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/02/04/still-at-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norman solomon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I a recent article in the Media Monitors Network, Norman Solomon asks &#8220;Why Are We Still at War?&#8221; He analyzes the pointlessness of fighting a &#8220;war on terror,&#8221; supporting his assertion with quotations by Joan Didion and Norman Mailer. He writes: It may be profoundly true that we are not red states and blue states, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Like JFK</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/19/obama-like-jfk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fred kaplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john f. kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Kaplan, in his article &#8220;Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK&#8221; for Slate, argues that &#8220;the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.&#8221; Within, he cites &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; Mailer&#8217;s &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket&#8221;: In the vapid Eisenhower years, he went on, the &#8220;life of politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mailer&#8217;s Almost Profile of Obama</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/16/mailers-almost-profile-of-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/16/mailers-almost-profile-of-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dwayne raymond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dwayne Raymond today recounts the time Esquire offered Norman Mailer the opportunity to travel briefly with Barack Obama. His article &#8220;When Mailer Almost Profiled Obama&#8221; appears in The Huffington Post and gives a bit of insight into how Mailer felt about our next president. Raymond writes: I said to Norman that I thought Obama might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Edge of Mystery</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/15/the-edge-of-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john f. kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matt bai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer&#8217;s hopes for a President Kennedy in his &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket.&#8221; Bai begins &#8220;The Edge of Mystery&#8221; by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century: Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frost/Nixon and Mailer</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/13/frostnixon-and-mailer/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/13/frostnixon-and-mailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david frost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james reston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard nixon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer is mentioned in Allen Barra&#8217;s review of the new film by Ron Howard: Frost/Nixon. Berra comments that Mailer, along with Gore Vidal and Philip Roth, attempted to probe the psyche of Nixon in literature. Berra writes: Mailer, not entirely unsympathetic, probably came the closest to pinpointing Nixon’s Rosebud. At the 1968 Republican Convention, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NM to JFK</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/02/nm-to-jfk/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/02/nm-to-jfk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jfk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[village voice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I mean: Wasn&#8217;t there anyone around to give you the lecture on Cuba? Don&#8217;t you sense the enormity of your mistake &#8211; you invade a country without understanding its music. The Village Voice is running an excerpt everyday from their archives, and today&#8217;s &#8220;An Open Letter to JFK&#8221; is by Norman Mailer.]]></description>
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		<title>The Mailer Files 3: Who Killed Marilyn?</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/26/the-mailer-files-3-who-killed-marilyn/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/26/the-mailer-files-3-who-killed-marilyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe stephens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marilyn monroe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Stephens is back with his latest installment of the Mailer Files &#8212; the recently public paper trail of Hoover&#8217;s 15-year investigation of Norman Mailer &#8212; in The Washington Post. This week it&#8217;s &#8220;Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?&#8221; No, it wasn&#8217;t NM. Stephens quotes an FBI memo: &#8220;Mailer suggests that &#8216;right-wing&#8217; FBI and CIA Agents had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mailer Makes Another Esquire List</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/mailer-makes-another-esquire-list/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/mailer-makes-another-esquire-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[esquire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reprint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer&#8217;s 1960 nonfiction narrative &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket&#8221; made the &#8220;The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine&#8221; list. From the introduction: Five years ago, we named “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” by Gay Talese, the greatest story Esquire ever published. Here, as we close out our 75th anniversary celebration, are [...]]]></description>
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