Suspense novel set in California, the Caribbean, and Washington D.C., tells the story of Elena McMahon, a reporter for the Washington Post in 1984 who walks off the job and into a world of arms dealing, covert action, and assassination.
A collection of twenty of the author's essays printed in magazines in 1965-67, including pieces about life in Haight-Ashbury, Joan Baez's school, and John Wayne.
American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.
Explores the ways in which the continuing and polarizing nostalgia for an imagined America led to the entrenchment ofa small percentage of the electorate as the nation's deciding political force.
"Previously published in . . . The New York review of books in October 1982." Discusses the situation of anarchy and terrorism in El Salvador as of 1982.
