bbbFifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateurbb pbNo writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, are two novels, two book-length masterpieces of new journalism, and thirty-three essays. brbbrFour Books of the 1960sb presents iAn American Dreami, Mailer's hallucinatory voyage through the dark night of an America awash in money, sex, and violencei Why Are We in Vietnami, in which a motor-mouthed 18-year-old Texan on the eve of military service recounts with manic and obscene exuberance a grizzly bear hunt in Alaska that exposes the macho roots of the war and the acclaimed non-fiction novel iThe Armies of the Nightiwinner of the Pulitz