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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath
Rick Wartzman
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| #1822794 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2008-09-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.40 x6.40 x9.40l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | reverberations of The Grapes of Wrath in California||19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Likely to Become the Defining Work on the History of Labor and Farming in the Valley in the 1930s|By Frederick S. Goethel|Was the "Grapes of Wrath" a nonfiction work disguised as a novel? Apparently, the County Board of Supervisors in Kern County California thought just that. The book, and Steinbeck, irritated them to the point that they decided to ban the work and prohibit i|From Publishers Weekly|During May of 1939, as the Nazis were burning books throughout Germany, the people of Bakersfield Calif., did exactly the same thing with John Steinbeck's new bestseller, The Grapes of Wrath. As Wartzman (The King of California
Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, Californiathe Joads' newfound homethe book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship.
When W. B. Bill” Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burni...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath | Rick Wartzman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
