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The White Album
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The White Album

Essays (FSG Classics)

by Joan Didion

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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Anthony Bourdain and Anya Taylor-Joy

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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in About California, Most Recommended Books, and History.

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 wit...

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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in About California, Most Recommended Books, and History.

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