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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1968
Pages
Pages 230

An essayist wanders California in the sixties, from murder trials to runaway children in the Haight, and writes down, coolly and exactly, what a society coming apart looks like.

The center was not holding.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

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