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Norman Mailer - Oh My America (Part 1): Farewell to the Fifties (2000x5)

Air date: Oct 11, 2000

The first of a two-part programme in which writer Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War - an experience that inspired his novel "The Naked and the Dead" - but, disappointed by post-war America, he grew to despise the 1950s.