<div>Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of South and West. In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California; and New York, the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album &ldquo;capture[s] the mood of America&rdquo; and confirms her reputation as one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers (The New York Times). Whether dissecting the 1988 presidential campaign, exploring the commercialization of a Hollywood murder, or reporting on the &ldquo;sideshows&rdquo; of foreign wars, Joan Didion proves that she is one of the premier essayists of the twentieth century, &ldquo;an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time&rdquo; (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review). Highlights include &ldquo;In the Realm of the Fisher King,&rdquo; a portrait of the White House under the stewardship of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, two &ldquo;actors on location;&rdquo; and &ldquo;Girl of the Golden West,&rdquo; a meditation on the Patty Hearst case that draws an unexpected and insightful parallel between the kidnapped heiress and the emigrants who settled California. &ldquo;Sentimental Journeys&rdquo; is a deeply felt study of New York media coverage of the brutal rape of a white investment banker in Central Park, a notorious crime that exposed the city&rsquo;s racial and class fault lines. Dedicated to Henry Robbins, Didion&rsquo;s friend and editor from 1966 until his death in 1979, After Henry is an indispensable collection of &ldquo;superior reporting and criticism&rdquo; from a writer on whom we have relied for more than fifty years &ldquo;to get the story straight&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). </div>

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<div>An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of South and West. In Miami, the National Book Award&ndash;winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and pastel architecture to explore the murkier waters of a city on the edge. From Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion to Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination to Oliver North and the Iran&ndash;Contra affair, Joan Didion uncovers political intrigues and shadowy underworld connections, and documents the US government&rsquo;s &ldquo;seduction and betrayal&rdquo; of the Cuban exile community in Dade County. She writes of hotels that offer &ldquo;guerrilla discounts,&rdquo; gun shops that advertise Father&rsquo;s Day deals, and a real-estate market where &ldquo;Unusual Security and Ready Access to the Ocean&rdquo; are perks for wealthy homeowners looking to make a quick escape. With a booming drug trade, staggering racial and class inequities, and skyrocketing murder rates, Miami in the 1980s felt more like a Third World capital than a modern American city. Didion describes the violence, passion, and paranoia of these troubled times in arresting detail and &ldquo;beautifully evocative prose&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). A vital report on an immigrant community traumatized by broken dreams and the cynicism of US foreign policy, Miami is a masterwork of literary journalism whose insights are timelier and more important than ever. </div>

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