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  First edition of Eugene Kennedy and Sara C. Charles' Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America; inscribed by them to Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne

  KENNEDY, Eugene and Sara C. Charles. [Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne].

  Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America.

  New York: The Free Press, 1997.

  First edition of  authors' work on power, authority, and influence. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors on the front free endpaper, "For John and Joan with the affectionate good wishes and, more than that, our real love - Gene and Sally." The recipients, American journalists Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late 1950s when Didion was working for Vogue. They were soon married and both picked up writing work from book publishers and magazines, traveled together on journalism assignments, and established a working pattern that served for the next 40 years. They had a constant advising, consulting, and editing collaboration. Critically acclaimed bestselling books followed for each, including Dunne’s The Studio and Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Didion’s work, in particular, engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. Writing at the same time Bradlee was acting as executive editor of The Washington Post, Didion gained a reputation as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing and recognition for her sensational novels, including her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of magazine pieces ab...

  Price: $1,250.00     Item Number: 141084

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