Firing Line

Armies of the Night (3x21)

Air date: May 28, 1968

Norman Mailer appears on Firing Line to promote his book, "The Armies of the Night." Mailer's book retells the 1967 March on the Pentagon which included Dwight MacDonald, Robert Lowell, and himself. Mailer discusses his support for Fidel Castro; the excessive propriety of left-wing intellectuals; the qualities of great men, and the journalistic inaccuracies of Time Magazine.