The White Album

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The White Album is a seminal 1979 collection of Joan Didion’s personal essays that dissects the cultural and political turbulence of 1960s and 1970s America.

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instanceOf book of essays
essay collection
non-fiction book
author Joan Didion NERFINISHED
containsEssay Good Citizens
Holy Water NERFINISHED
In Hollywood
In the Islands
James Pike, American
Many Mansions NERFINISHED
On the Morning After the Sixties NERFINISHED
The White Album NERFINISHED
The White Album (title essay) NERFINISHED
The Women’s Movement NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception acclaimed
followedBy Salvador NERFINISHED
genre journalism
literary nonfiction
personal essays
hasCoverDesign minimalist white cover in many editions
hasISBN 9780671226855
language English
mainTheme California counterculture
cultural turbulence in the United States
fragmentation of American life
personal and social disintegration
political unrest in the United States
mediaType print
notableFor its fragmented narrative structure
its incisive cultural criticism
its influence on contemporary essay writing
partOfAuthorCareerPhase Didion’s major nonfiction period of the 1960s and 1970s
placeOfPublication New York City
precededBy Slouching Towards Bethlehem NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1979
publisher Simon & Schuster
setInPeriod 1960s America
1970s America
subject American politics
California NERFINISHED
Hollywood NERFINISHED
Los Angeles NERFINISHED
the Black Panthers NERFINISHED
the Manson murders
the counterculture
the women’s movement
titleEssay The White Album NERFINISHED

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