The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our e
ra, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem "remains, forty years after its first publicati
on, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixties.
It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl
in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel
room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart
of the counterculture.
