The first non-fiction book by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our time, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," remains the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the 1960s, even forty years after its initial publication. It addresses themes such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, the upbringing of a girl in California, reflections on the nature of good and evil in a motel room in Death Valley, and above all, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.