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Mailer for Mayor

Jesse Walker | 4.30.2009 11:01 PM


Norman Mailer's son writes an engaging account of his father's "left conservative" campaign 40 years ago to be mayor of New York. My favorite line: running mate Jimmy Breslin's lament that "I am mortified to have taken part in a process that required bars to be closed."

Bonus link: a great Mailer/Breslin campaign poster.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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