Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion [MODERN LIBRARY HARDCOVER] 2000

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

GOLD LABEL COLLECTOR'S EDITION [2000] THE MODERN LIBRARY

First Modern Library printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  

Book is like new; some extremely minor shelf wear to DJ and just the faintest hint of tanning to bottom of boards.   

Small label on inside cover with prev. owner's name [see last photo.]

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties.

This classic collection of journalism defined the state of America during the upheaval of the sixties revolution. The essays feature barricades and bombings, mass murders and kidnapped heiresses.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.