War of the Oxymorons
Mailer's nonfiction-narrative account of the 1996 Republican and Democratic conventions — his first appearance in George, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s magazine.

“War of the Oxymorons,” Mailer’s nonfiction-narrative account of the 1996 Republican and Democratic conventions, appeared in George — John F. Kennedy Jr.’s politics-and-celebrity magazine — in November 1996 (128–73), his first appearance there. It continues the convention reporting that runs from Miami and the Siege of Chicago through “By Heaven Inspired” (92.10). Reprinted in the Observer Life (London), in The Time of Our Time (98.7, partial), and complete in Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).
Related pages
- “Searching for Deliverance” (96.5)
- 1996
- Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (76.5) | How the Pharaoh Beat Bogey (97.1)
- By Heaven Inspired: Republican Convention Revisited (92.10) | The Time of Our Time (98.7) | The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1)