![]() In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 19 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume.īook Synopsis From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions and Where I Was From. ![]()
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