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First published in the U.S.A. 1968 Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © Norman Mailer, 1968
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‘A Shaky Start’, on pages 13 and 14, reprinted by permission from Time, The Weekly Newsmagazine; copyright © Time Inc. 1967. Material on pages 55, 56, 136 and 137 from Near the Ocean by Robert Lowell. Reprinted with permission of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc. Copyright © 1967 by Robert Lowell. Article quoted on pages 294-5 reprinted by permission. Copyright © 1967 by The Washington Star.
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