Date: 17 August 2007
From: ForaTv
Complete video at fora.tv fora showthread.php?t=1249 Internationally acclaimed author and journalist Norman Mailer discusses his views on national pride, the Iraq war, and American Neoconservatives. This excerpt is taken from a program in which Norman Mailer talks with authors Gunter Grass and Andrew O'Hagan on the topic of The 20th Century on Trial, and was recorded in collaboration with the New York Public Library. ----- The New York Public Library presents The 20th Century on Trial with Norman Mailer and Gunter Grass. Born in the 1920s, Gunter Grass and Norman Mailer went on to become grand men of letters. They witnessed the 20th century at close quarters. At the center of each writer's consciousness is the role of their respective countries in World War II and the legacy of violence and guilt that created the Cold War. Yet as stylists these two novelists appeared to internalize the great forces of their times the appeal of totalitarianism and the cult of celebrity, the struggle for national defi...
    
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