I’d be hard-pressed to find an event as bizarre as Norman Mailer’s quixotic 1969 mayoral campaign in the annals of New York City political history. Running alongside newspaper writer Jimmy Breslin (who was running for city council president) under the slogan of “no more bullshit“, the Mailer-Breslin ticket sure seems a lot more interesting than the prospect of somebody running against, and getting whooped soundly by Michael Bloomberg. I’d also be hard-pressed to try and find another personality quite like […]