Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalismare admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare,elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appearedbetween 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrillingcollection.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of thesixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, JoanBaez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionarypolitics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the late sixties andearly seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the BlackPanthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the socialand political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret rolethis largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay ofPigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on theReagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eightessays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich,Clinton, Starr, and “compassionate conservatism,” among others–showus how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I WasFrom Didion shows that California was never the land of the goldendream.
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