{"product_id":"9780307264879","title":"We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction","description":"(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. \u003ci\u003eThe White Album \u003c\/i\u003ecovers 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\u003e is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e exposes 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\u003eDidion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e–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 \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From \u003c\/i\u003eDidion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045925929200,"sku":"9780307264879","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307264879_p0.jpg?v=1763671533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307264879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}