false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156917257m/421.jpg 421 8 <div>First published in 1979, <i>The White Album </i>is a mosaic<i> </i>of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.<br></div> 682500 1985 The White Album total:1744|5:745|4:658|3:284|2:46|1:10| 1744 7314 2405 143 4 6 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 18:45:24 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 24 18:15:37 -0700 2009 1 The White Album was required reading for my American Experience class. I didn't love the book at first, but after a couple of essays, Didion's quiet style started to grow on me. This collection is a revealing narrative of events that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. It examines the lives of fam...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 20:54:55 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 11:53:00 -0800 2009 hardness i...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 29 14:27:46 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 19:41:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 09:55:07 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 10:11:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 19 12:17:30 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 12:27:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 17 15:33:44 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 15:43:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 26 05:02:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 05:07:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 11:05:36 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 23:09:26 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:02:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 15:10:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 09:34:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 16:07:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 17:47:22 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 08 17:20:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 16:09:45 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 18:20:31 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 13:36:04 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 13:41:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 30 07:01:26 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 07:12:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 06:49:01 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 16:35:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 11:02:22 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 11:10:16 -0700 2007 Magical Thinking," along with the rest of the world (one of those books everyone was reading on the subway), and then I read "Where I Was From", "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," and now this. So much about so many things--the J. Pau...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu May 17 14:05:46 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 14:21:18 -0700 2007
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