Australian Left Review

Article Title

Books: 1. The Armies of the Night

Authors

R. J. Cahill

Abstract

THE VIETNAM MORATORIUM invites the famous American author, Mr. Norman Mailer, to attend the September demonstration. Would he mind sharing the platform with Jane Fonda and dear old Dr. Spock, hero of the Woman ’s Day set. toilet-trainer extraordinaire? How about a dash of Dr. Cairns to top it off? And will Norm write a book about it — about the demonstrators, and his role in the whole deal, and how the Daily Telegraph misrepresented him, and the relationship between shit and Dr. Spock, and some insights into the psychology of Jane Fonda, Time pin up girl? And what will he say about poor old Jim . . .