Political Fictions

Political Fictions

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name = Political Fictions
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image_caption = 1990 trade paperback cover
author = Joan Didion
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Essays
publisher = Knopf
release_date = 2001
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 352 pp (Knopf hardcover edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-375-41338-3 (Knopf hardcover edition)
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"Political Fictions" is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process. Written for "The New York Review of Books" between October 1988 and October 2000, the collection includes three essays previously published as the "Washington" section of "After Henry".

Didion records the election of George H.W. Bush and his defeat by Bill Clinton, the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, Clinton's impeachment, and the 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

In the "Yale Review of Books", Jessica Lee Thomas wrote, "The scariest point Didion seems to be making is not simply that politics is a nest of lies, but that we buy into 'the story' like any good novel."


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