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Original LIFE Magazine — August 29, 1969
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from August 29, 1969, featuring writer Norman Mailer on the cover and a major report on America’s historic Moon venture. The issue also covers the Woodstock Rock Festival, placing two defining events of the summer of 1969—Apollo-era space exploration and Woodstock—together in one collectible magazine.
- Cover Subject: Norman Mailer — “A Major Report on the Moon Venture”
- Inside This Issue: Norman Mailer’s report on the Moon venture, coverage of the Woodstock Rock Festival, and LIFE’s photography and reporting from August 1969
- Completeness: Complete original issue
- Perfect For: Apollo and space-history collectors, Woodstock memorabilia collectors, Norman Mailer readers, 1960s history enthusiasts, birthday and anniversary gifts, and vintage LIFE Magazine collectors
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 2 Special Report: Is that an O.K. Word, Usewise? By William Zinsser
Pg… 4 Gallery: An Eastern Approach
Pg… 8–10 Reviews: Movie: “Alice’s Restaurant,” Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–10 Reviews: Book: “Fat City,” by Leonard Gardner, Reviewed by Frank Conroy
Pg… 14A Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14B The Woodstock Rock Trip: Hundreds of Thousands of Kids Descend on a Catskill Farm for a Musical Festival, and the Result is the Third Biggest City in New York. Photographed by John Dominis and Bill Eppridge
Pg… 24 Norman Mailer: A Fire on the Moon: A Remarkable Personal Study of the U.S. Moon Program Undertaken for LIFE by the Pulitzer Prize Winner
Pg… 42 Tragic House on the Hill: Husband Roman Polanski Comes Home to the Scene of the Sharon Tate Murders. By Thomas Thompson
Pg… 49 Close–Up: Old Smut Peddler Barney Rosset of Grove Press: His New Four–Letter Work is “Film.” By Albert Goldman
Pg… 54 Books: In “Stevie,” 18–Year–Old John Steptoe Writes and Illustrates a New Kind of Book About Black Children
Pg… 60 Miscellany
