Miller, Morgan
Summary: "Drafted! tells the story of Henry Morgan Miller’s year in Vietnam at the invitation of Lyndon B. Johnson. It is the story of a meat-cutter—wannabe commercial airline pilot—whose life was rudely interrupted by being inducted into a war that he considered someone else’s battle for a lost cause. It’s a story that could describe many of the almost 300,000 men drafted in 1968 along with Morgan, or,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Brand Publishing 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELMailer, Norman
Summary: The first posthumous publication from this literary icon, "Mind of an Outlaw" collects Mailer's most important and representative work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 MAIMailer, Norman
Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MAIMailer, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 MAIMailer, Norman.
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMailer, Norman.
Summary: Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMailer, Norman
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAIMailer, Norman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMailer, Norman.
Summary: Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018