Robert Scheer and Creators Syndicate Inc.:
Excerpts from “The Poor Are the Underpinnings of Our Lifestyle” by Robert Scheer from
The Los Angeles Times
(June 8, 1992). Copyright © 1992. Reprinted by permission of Robert Scheer and Creators Syndicate Inc.
Random House, Inc.:
Excerpt from the poems “Apology for Bad Dreams,” copyright © 1925 and renewed 1953 by Robinson Jeffers, and “Shine, Perishing Republic,” copyright © 1934 and renewed 1962 by Donnan Jeffers and Garth Jeffers from
Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
by Robinson Jeffers. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
University of California Press:
Excerpts from
The Valley of the Moon
by Jack London. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Didion, Joan.
Where I was from / Joan Didion.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. California—History. 2. California—Social conditions.
3. California—In literature. 4. National characteristics, American. I. Title
F861.D53 2003
979.4—dc21 2002043325
eISBN: 978-0-307-76329-7
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