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This reads as a casual historical recollection, but it also frames both men as part of the same postwar generation entering public life. The line can be taken to mean that personal meeting and shared background mattered as much as political identity. It lands when someone is trying to place themselves inside a larger public moment, and to show how quickly careers can overlap.
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Books by Norman Mailer
The armies of the night
1968
The executioner's song
1993
The Naked and the Dead
1948
The Gospel according to the Son
1997
Why are we in Vietnam?
1987