St. George and the Godfather
The first hardcover edition (Arbor House, 1983) of Mailer's 1972 narrative of the Nixon and McGovern conventions, with a new introduction by John Leonard.
The first hardcover edition of St. George and the Godfather, Mailer’s narrative of the 1972 Republican and Democratic conventions (Nixon and McGovern), published by Arbor House in September 1983 (229 pp., $14.95; simultaneously in softcover) with a new introduction by John Leonard. The book had first appeared as a paperback original in 1972 (72.17); this is its first hardcover.