Norman Mailer Brawled With Bush to the Bitter End

There is much, much to be said of Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer-prize winning author and world-class rabble-rouser who has died at age 84.

But the pugilistic pensman would perhaps be most pleased to have it known that he went down swinging. The chronicler of our politics and protests in the 1960s with two of the era's definitional books - 1968's Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of Chicago, did not rest on the laurels - and they were legion -- earned for exposing the dark undersides of the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.