Norman Mailer: Works and Days

A Credo for the Living

A substantive Mailer essay in the leftist weekly National Guardian treating postwar Europe, U.S. anti-Russian hysteria, and the Henry Wallace campaign — among the earliest of his published political statements and later reprinted in Mind of an Outlaw.

“A Credo for the Living.” National Guardian, 18 October 1948.

Article dealing with postwar Europe, anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S., and the 1948 Henry Wallace campaign. Cross-references: 48.9, 74.20.

Rpt: Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1).

See Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson, Something to Guard: The Stormy Life of the National Guardian (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978), for the paper’s institutional history.

First published: 1948-10-18
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 48.11
Cite as: /works/1948-10-18-credo-for-the-living
Last updated: 2026-04-20