Preface to The Presidential Papers
Mailer's new preface to the Berkley softcover reissue of The Presidential Papers (1963), which the first edition lacked.
Mailer’s new preface to the Berkley softcover reissue of The Presidential Papers (63.37; October 1976) — the first edition had none. It is followed by a piece mistitled “Special Preface to the First Berkley Edition,” which is in fact the “Special Preface to the Bantam Edition” (64.15). In the new preface Mailer judges the book over-mannered, written in a month “out of economic necessity,” yet “a paradigm of the prodigious anxiety which attached to politics in the early sixties.” A full transcription is held at full text.