Norman Mailer: Works and Days

A Letter from Norman Mailer to the Voting Democrats of New York

A 2,000-word paid advertisement-letter, signed 'Norman and Jimmy,' attacking the New York media and outlining the Mailer–Breslin platform.

A 2,000-word paid advertisement-letter, signed “Norman and Jimmy,” attacking the New York media for making the Mailer–Breslin campaign “look like clowns” and outlining the team’s platform (revenue, law and order, transportation, housing, school decentralization, the “Sweet Sunday” traffic ban). Mailer’s position papers, with much of this language, are collected in Running Against the Machine (69.80).

First published: 1969-06-15
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 69.70
Cite as: /works/1969-06-15-letter-to-voting-democrats
Last updated: 2026-05-30