The Poor American in London
Mailer's Esquire essay on the 1983 British general election, watched 'through the trained eye of an innocent abroad'; first run in three parts in the Mail on Sunday.
“The Poor American in London: The British Elections as Seen through the Trained Eye of an Innocent Abroad,” an essay in Esquire (October 1983) on the 1983 British general election. It had first appeared, divided into three parts — “The Left,” “The Right,” and “The Outcome” — in the English newspaper the Mail on Sunday (29 May, 5 June, and 12 June 1983).