Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Classic literary journalism which defined, for many, the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

Joan Didion not only describes the subject at hand – her younger self loving and leaving New York, the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion – but also offers a broader vision of the world, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.