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The White Album

Joan Didion

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#1259 of 3,809 books · #444 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1981) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1979).

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 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.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13
9780374608798
Topics
1960s countercultureAmerican societyPersonal essays

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