The White Album
After reading the magnificent "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," I immediately picked up Joan Didion's "The White Album," which I had been meaning to read for some time. Equally as riveting and elegantly written as her prior series of essays, it goes without saying that "The White Album" is an insightful, first-hand chronicle of one of the most turbulent times in American history. Didion brings you front-and-center to niche locations and events that, if you didn't live during the era, you might not have heard about. The late 1960s was a time of confusion. Some people had ideals or were striving to have them, while others liked the idea of having ideals ("On the Morning After the Sixties"). Although the circumstances were vastly different, elements of a herd mentality, in this case the hippie ideology of the late 1960s, is comparable (not in ideology, but in the style of blind following) to movements in the present day, such as MAGA support
