{"product_id":"we-tell-ourselves-stories-in-order-to-live","title":"We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live - Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)","description":"\u003cb\u003eSeven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e: including the full texts of \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSalvador\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAfter Henry\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs featured in the Netflix documentary \u003ci\u003eJoan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSalvador \u003c\/i\u003eis a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. \u003ci\u003eMiami \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In \u003ci\u003eAfter Henry\u003c\/i\u003e Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions—\u003c\/i\u003eon 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 \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From\u003c\/i\u003e Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50964124500256,"sku":"9780307264879","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780307264879.jpg?v=1764014981","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/we-tell-ourselves-stories-in-order-to-live","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}