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A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters.William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Mailer were the two towering intellectual figures of the 1960s, and they lived remarkably parallel lives. Both became best-selling authors in their twenties (with God and Man at Yale and The Naked and the Dead) ; both started hugely influential papers (National Review and the Village Voice) ; both ran for mayor of New York City; both were noted for their exceptional wit and venom; and both became the figurehead of their respective social movements (Buckley on the right, Mailer on the left) . Indeed, Buckley and Mailer argued vociferously and publicly about every major issue of their time: civil rights, feminism, the counterculture, Vietnam, the Cold War.



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Kevin M. Schultz

An award-winning historian and teacher, Kevin M. Schultz was born in Los Angeles but lived in Nashville, Utah, Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco, and Charlottesville, before settling in Chicago, where he now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) . He has special interests in American intellectual and cultural life, and he mostly likes how ideas move around in the world, getting used and abused in all sorts of unpredictable ways. He has written for academic and popular audiences alike, including once having had an article of his appear immediately before that of the Pope. His most recent book, which was an Amazon #1 New Release in History, is Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the 1960s (W.W. Norton & Co.) .



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