The Steps of the Pentagon
The cover-story magazine version of Book One of The Armies of the Night; at the time the longest article in Harper's history and in U.S. journalism.
A nonfiction narrative on the antiwar March on the Pentagon, 19-21 October 1967, and Mailer’s first appearance in Harper’s — at the time the longest article in the history of the magazine and of U.S. journalism (see Henry Raymont, “Harper’s and Atlantic Put Out ‘Vietnam’ Issues,” New York Times, 19 February 1968, 14). Rpt: in revised form as “History as a Novel: The Steps of the Pentagon,” Book One of The Armies of the Night (68.8).
Related pages
- 1968 | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
- The Battle of the Pentagon (68.6)