We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live - Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard (Hardcover)

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Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem "captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. "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. "Salvador" is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. "Miami" exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In "After Henry "Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in "Political Fictions"-on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in "Where I Was From "Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	October 2006
Authors:	Joan Didion
Introduction by:	John Leonard
Dimensions:	208 x 135 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	1122
ISBN-13:	978-0-307-26487-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-307-26487-4
Barcode:	9780307264879

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