“Superman Comes to the Supermarket”- Norman Mailer, November 1960
Excerpts from a post on “Get Mitch or Die Trying”:
To celebrate today’s inauguration, here is a piece written for Esquire in 1960 by Norman Mailer…The superficial comparisons between Barack Obama and Kennedy have been frequently made leading up to today, and their are some similarities to be found. But I think the most common link the men share is a sense of “rebirth” on the part of the country with their elections
“Since the First World War Americans have been leading a double life, and our history has moved on two rivers, one visible, the other underground; there has been the history of politics which is concrete, factual, practical and unbelievably dull…and there is a subterranean river of untapped, ferocious, lonely and romantic desires, that concentration of ecstasy and violence which is the dream life of the nation…”
“…Yet America was also the country in which the dynamic myth of the Renaissance — that every man was potentially extraordinary — knew its most passionate persistence. Simply, America was the land where people still believed in heroes…
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