Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Moral Superiority

Mailer's letter to Time complaining that he was quoted out of context in the 6 November 'People' section regarding McGovern's moral superiority.

“Moral Superiority,” a letter to the editor of Time (11 December 1972), in which Mailer complains that he was quoted out of context in the “People” section of 6 November regarding the moral superiority of George McGovern (see 72.21a). Reprinted in Mind of an Outlaw (14.3).

Lennon & Lennon: 72.23
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