Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is Joan Didion’s influential 1968 essay collection that helped define New Journalism through its incisive, personal reporting on 1960s American culture, particularly California.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay collection
nonfiction book
author Joan Didion
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre New Journalism
essay
literary journalism
hasISBN 978-0-374-52230-1
hasPart 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38
California Dreaming
Goodbye to All That (essay)
surface form: Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That (essay)
Guaymas
surface form: Guaymas, Sonora

James Pike, American
John Wayne: A Love Song
Letter from Paradise, 21° 19′ N., 157° 52′ W.
Life Styles in the Golden Land
Los Angeles Notebook
Marrying Absurd
Notes from a Native Daughter
Notes of a Native Son
surface form: Notes from a Native Son

On Going Home
On Keeping a Notebook
On Morality
On Self-Respect
On the Morning After the Sixties
Rock of Ages
Slouching Towards Bethlehem self-linksurface differs
surface form: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (essay)

Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
The Seacoast of Despair
Where the Kissing Never Stops
influenced New Journalism
isTitleTakenFrom The Second Coming
isTitleTakenFromAuthor W.B. Yeats
surface form: W. B. Yeats
language English
mainSubject 1960s American culture
California, United States
surface form: California

counterculture
personal narrative
mediaType print
movement New Journalism
notableFor incisive personal reporting
portrayal of 1960s counterculture
publicationYear 1968
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
setting California, United States
surface form: California

San Francisco
timePeriodDescribed 1960s
title Slouching Towards Bethlehem self-link

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Joan Didion notableWork Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem title Slouching Towards Bethlehem self-link
Slouching Towards Bethlehem hasPart Slouching Towards Bethlehem self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (essay)
Night Ride Home hasTrack Slouching Towards Bethlehem