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First published in 1979, Joan Didion''s The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.

Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraincluding Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mallthrough 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.

The White Album

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: 10/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780374532079, 978-0374532079
      ISBN10: 0374532079
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      Book Synopsis

      First published in 1979, Joan Didion''s The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.

      Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraincluding Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mallthrough 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.

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