We tell ourselves stories in order to live - Joan Didion

Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

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.

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.

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