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Democracy

by Joan Didion

Political intrigue and romantic entanglement span decades of Cold War America

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Joan Didion
Joan Didion

American journalist and essayist whose reporting on the 1960s in Slouching Towards Bethlehem captured the decade's chaos with cold precision. The White Album continued her dislocated, fragmented examination of California and American culture. The Year of Magical Thinking is a shattering memoir of grief.

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  • The Year of Magical ThinkingMemoir of shock and grief following sudden death of husband and daughter→
  • Blue NightsReflection on mortality and memory prompted by daughter's long illness and death→
  • Slouching Towards BethlehemEssays on American culture, celebrity and societal breakdown in 1960s→
  • The White AlbumEssays on culture wars, media and American life during volatile 1960s-70s→

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