<p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER •</b> <b>Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature....  She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (<i>The New York Times Book Review).</i></b><br><br>Here, the National Book Award–winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts.<br><br>At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away. <br><br>A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy, <i>After Henry</i> is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.</p> Read Less