Norman Mailer, on the blivet, among all other presidents: "The most ignorant."

[speedoo]

Sums it up pretty well, doesn't it.

Mailer's an absolutely fascinating man. On cspan 2 now, talking about his new novel.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. replays Monday at 4:30 pm

The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
Norman Mailer
From the Writer's Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, California, author Norman Mailer is interviewed by David Ulin, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Norman Mailer's new novel, "The Castle in the Forest," is a fictionalized account of Adolf Hitler's childhood and adolescence.

Norman Mailer is the author of more than thirty books. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Armies of the Night," an account of his experiences demonstrating against the Vietnam War. He won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for "The Executioner's Song," a novel based on the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Mr. Mailer co-founded the Village Voice in 1955 and began covering politics as a journalist in 1960. He wrote about the Kennedy administration in "Presidential Papers" and the 1968 Democratic convention in "Miami and the Siege of Chicago." He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=231907&mesg_id=231944

[speedoo]

2. Thanks! Could have sworn it was Harold Ramis interviewing him.

The event was Feb. 6.

BTW, I promise to read your "cspan book" posts from now on.... excellent resource! :applause:

[kskiska]

3. Loved his "Oswald's Tale"

a thorough investigation of just who Lee Harvey Oswald was.

[MissWaverly]

4. Hey, I agree, we need public figures to speak the truth

somebody to counteract the David Broder suck ups of this world. bush has been at less than
40% approval rate for over a year. Strangest "comeback" I have ever seen.