Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Battle of the Pentagon

The magazine version of Book Two of The Armies of the Night.

A nonfiction narrative on the antiwar March on the Pentagon (see Alden Whitman, “Commentary Gets Mailer ‘Epilogue,’” New York Times, 11 March 1968, 48). Rpt: in revised form as “The Novel as History: The Battle of the Pentagon,” Book Two of The Armies of the Night (68.8).

First published: 1968-04
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 68.6
Cite as: /works/1968-04-battle-of-the-pentagon
Last updated: 2026-05-30