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This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country. The San Bernardino Valley lies only an houreast of Los Angeles by way of the San Bernardino.
I’ll never forget the book’s opening essay, “Some Dreamers Of The Golden Dream,” which on the surface seems like an account of a real-life case of adultery and murder in San Bernardino County.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).
- Joan Didion
- 1968
May 1, 2012 · “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post with the chilling title “How Can I tell Them There’s Nothing Left”. It tells the story of a murder trial in the San Bernardino Valley.
Part 1, Essay 1 Summary: “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream”. Didion begins this essay, which is a true-crime analysis of the case of Lucille Marie Maxwell Miller, by describing the San Bernardino Valley.
The essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” follows—through research, interviews, and media coverage—the trial and conviction of Lucille Miller, a housewife who is accused of staging her husband’s accidental death.
The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of...
