The Day the Movement Died
Dotson Rader's Esquire article on the decline of the protest movements, quoting Mailer several times; later revised as 'With Mailer at the Senator's' in Rader's Blood Dues.
“The Day the Movement Died,” an article by Dotson Rader in Esquire (November 1972), is a long meditation on the decline and fall of the protest movements, quoting Mailer several times. Rader revised it as “With Mailer at the Senator’s” in Blood Dues (Knopf, 1973) — a book that also recounts the 6 December 1971 antiwar rally at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where a dramatic fragment from Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15) was read. Also reprinted in Esquire’s fiftieth-anniversary collector’s issue (June 1983).
Related pages
- Dotson Rader | 1972
- Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15) | A Fragment From Vietnam: A Play in One Act (85.11)