How the Wimp Won the War
Mailer's Vanity Fair essay on the 1991 Gulf War (May 1991); the discarded title was 'Cleaning the Augean Stables.'
“How the Wimp Won the War,” Mailer’s essay on the 1991 Gulf War, ran in Vanity Fair in May 1991 (138–43, 184, 186) — the title playing on the press’s old “wimp” tag for George H. W. Bush. Its discarded title was “Cleaning the Augean Stables.” Reprinted in 1992 (92.13), in The Time of Our Time (98.7, partial), and complete in Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).
Related pages
- “Children of the Pied Piper” (91.1)
- 1991
- The Time of Our Time (98.7) | The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1)