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![]() ![]() It was titled “Insider Baseball,” and it has since been, like so many of Didion’s essays, so widely imitated that its innovations can be easy to overlook. She documented the moment in an essay for The New York Review of Books. She watched as presidential fitness was redefined as athletic prowess with the consent of the national media-as the myths that shape, and limit, Americans’ sense of political possibility were manufactured in real time. Didion watched as a baseball was procured, a staffer tossed the ball to the candidate, he tossed it back-and as the cameras dutifully captured the exchange. ![]() ![]() The assembled journalists were trailing the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. In 1988, Joan Didion joined a scrum of reporters on the tarmac of the San Diego airport to witness the writing of the first draft of history. ![]()
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