The White Album Essays edition by Joan Didion Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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New York Times Bestseller An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker).
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witnessing First Lady of California Nancy Reagan pretend to pick flowers for the benefit of news cameras, Didion captures the paranoia and absurdity of the era with her signature blend of irony and insight. She takes readers to the “giddily splendid” Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the cool mountains of Bogotá, and the Jordanian Desert, where Bishop James Pike went to walk in Jesus’s footsteps—and died not far from his rented Ford Cortina. She anatomizes the culture of shopping malls—“toy garden cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”—and exposes the contradictions and compromises of the women’s movement. In the iconic title essay, she documents her uneasy state of mind during the years leading up to and following the Manson murders—a terrifying crime that, in her memory, surprised no one.
Written in “a voice like no other in contemporary journalism,” The White Album is a masterpiece of literary reportage and a fearless work of autobiography by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times Book Review). Its power to electrify and inform remains undiminished nearly forty years after it was first published.
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witnessing First Lady of California Nancy Reagan pretend to pick flowers for the benefit of news cameras, Didion captures the paranoia and absurdity of the era with her signature blend of irony and insight. She takes readers to the “giddily splendid” Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the cool mountains of Bogotá, and the Jordanian Desert, where Bishop James Pike went to walk in Jesus’s footsteps—and died not far from his rented Ford Cortina. She anatomizes the culture of shopping malls—“toy garden cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”—and exposes the contradictions and compromises of the women’s movement. In the iconic title essay, she documents her uneasy state of mind during the years leading up to and following the Manson murders—a terrifying crime that, in her memory, surprised no one.
Written in “a voice like no other in contemporary journalism,” The White Album is a masterpiece of literary reportage and a fearless work of autobiography by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times Book Review). Its power to electrify and inform remains undiminished nearly forty years after it was first published.
The White Album Essays edition by Joan Didion Politics Social Sciences eBooks
I’ve read two Didion books now, the other being “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her 2005 memoir of the year following the unexpected death of her husband. That book won, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize. Sad as it was, I liked it more than “The While Album.” This book is about all things California. Well, all things related to the Beautiful People in California in the 1960s and 1970s. Didion knew many of these people and spoke of them as you and I would speak of the names of the streets we’ve lived on in our lifetimes. That part of this memoir was mildly irritating to me, but the payoff with anything Didion has written is the writing itself. It may be second to none. When I think of the Writers’ Club Joan Didion is in, I think of the likes of Tom Wolfe, George Will, people like that. It’s very special writing indeed, and it’s worth the price of admission.Product details
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The White Album Essays edition by Joan Didion Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Slouching Towards Bethlehem was better, although I did enjoy the essay on Georgia O'Keefe. If you're a completionist reading all of Didion's work you won't be disappointed.
Amazingly insightful and brilliant writing. At some point, however, the stories seem to sound like a who's who of the times
I love Joan Didion and I love this book. Her writing is so insightful and she actually documents the 60's with personal experiences against the background of society. It most certainly lives on not only for her writing but for her documentation of a generation. She also knew so many interesting people. Highly recommend.
I really enjoyed Didion's insights and perspective from a time and place that I'm not all too familiar with. A lot of wit, and I especially enjoyed that it wasn't bogged down with drug commentary that so many essays are from the seventies.
Essays are a rumination on topics to which the essayist has some personal connection and to which the essayist can cause you and me to feel a connection. Most of these essays have dates in the 1970's and some involve California. This is my era and my place, and my favorite is The Women's Movement. But even readers from different places and different eras will enjoy romping with her insightful mind. If you are unfamiliar with her work, discovering these essays will be like opening an old trunk and finding an emerald brooch..
Joan Didion writes essays that are 'sharp shooting', original, and in carefully crafted language. She targets Nobel Laureates that she doesn't much care for. Describes Berkeley in the 1950s. And Hoover Dam, in language, almost science fictional, but just descriptive, such a dam is science fiction in the 1930s. Migraines, book tours, you name it, she described it. After reading 3 of her non-fiction book, I am now trying her fiction, which just arrived today. Thank you Prime.
I always cherish the opportunity to tear into the exquisite style of Joan Didion, one of the most unique writers of the 20th century; although two of her most important works, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING and BLUE NIGHTS were released in the past ten years. SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM is a perfectly realized series of essays, THE WHITE ALBUM, not so much, and that's mainly due to the subject matter. While BETHLEHEM had so many universal pieces that still hold up nearly fifty years later, THE WHITE ALBUM suffers from too many pieces that were already flat by the time the collection was published in 1979. But first the positive. Didion's best prose is dissecting the generational upheavals and revealing the beats and feelings of a generation, as she does with Manson Girl Linda Kasabian and Black Panther Huey P. Newton. A look at the (then) empty governor's mansion in Sacramento, the Hoover Dam and the creation of the interstate's Diamond Lane also feature the wonderfully dry Didion observational wit. Her continuous essays on Hawaii also show insight to the writer but also the tenacity of the region. An essay on the history of the mall, however, stops short but reveals some interesting possible career avenues. Blanket takes on the women's movement (as seen from 1972) and Hollywood (1973) flounder from lack of perspective. A surprising essay on migraines, however, brings to life in vivid detail the author's pain and perseverance. Didion is at her best when chronicling life in the here and now, and her opening gambit about the dangers of man that lurk in the Ellroy-ridden Los Angeles of the time is a masterful essay about the end of the 1960s, which she pinpoints to the Sharon Tate murders in August 1969. The constant in the writing is the delicate flow of words from this master of the essay.
I’ve read two Didion books now, the other being “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her 2005 memoir of the year following the unexpected death of her husband. That book won, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize. Sad as it was, I liked it more than “The While Album.” This book is about all things California. Well, all things related to the Beautiful People in California in the 1960s and 1970s. Didion knew many of these people and spoke of them as you and I would speak of the names of the streets we’ve lived on in our lifetimes. That part of this memoir was mildly irritating to me, but the payoff with anything Didion has written is the writing itself. It may be second to none. When I think of the Writers’ Club Joan Didion is in, I think of the likes of Tom Wolfe, George Will, people like that. It’s very special writing indeed, and it’s worth the price of admission.
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