Salvador by Joan Didion

Salvador

Joan Didion

108 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics reflective slow-paced

Description

In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country's foreign policy.

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