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  The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Joan Didion

  

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  Short Description for The White AlbumFirst published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic p...
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  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Published: 10 November 2009
  • Format: Paperback 222 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays
  • ISBN 13: 9780374532079 ISBN 10: 0374532079
  • Sales rank: 23,760

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• First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.