![]() ![]() And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream. ![]() 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. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. (Everymans Library Contemporary Classics) by Joan Didion (Hardcover). Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. ![]() 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. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst. Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death. Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Joan Didion Format: Hardcover 1160 pages Part of the Everymans Library Contemporary. Joan Didion, a Sacramento-born writer who became a subtle yet searing journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, died at her longtime home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan Thursday. ![]()
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