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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

essay by Joan Didion
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Summary

Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,756 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Joan Didion[3]
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux[4]
  • Genre: essay[5]
  • Language of work or name: English[6]
  • Country of origin: United States[7]
  • Publication date: 1968[8]
  • Has edition or translation: Slouching Towards Bethlehem[9]
  • Title: Slouching Towards Bethlehem[10]
  • Epigraph: I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Cary Grant.[11]

Why It Matters

Slouching Towards Bethlehem is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Goodreads work id → 1844
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/Slouching-Towards-Bethlehem
    Instance of → literary work
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en']
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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