A review by huskey
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

3.0

The clarity of Didion's voice is obviously very impressive. I think as a journalist she is providing an incisive view into the American psyche. Reading it now, these first hand accounts are very preferable to the collective nostalgia that has consumed the period of US and California history this depicts. As a collection, it all hangs together pretty loosely, which is my only real complaint. One of those books that strikes me as more important for what it represents than what it accomplishes. I'm looking forward reading further.