![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (p. |a Includes chronology of author's life (p. Willberg book design by Barbara de Wilde and Carol Devine Carson"-Colophon. |a "First included in Everyman's Library, 2006 Typography by Peter B. |a We tell ourselves stories in order to live : |b collected nonfiction / |c Joan Didion with an introduction by John Leonard. |a DLC |c DLC |d BAKER |d GK8 |d C#P |d YDXCP |d JRS 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, "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. ![]() "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 collection. ![]()
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