Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

ISBN-13: 9781586487676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Rick Wartzman

Opis

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 No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. 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 that fit of censorship, a moment when several lives collided as part of a larger class struggle roiling the nation. It is a superb historical narrative that serves as an engaging window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America, when as Steinbeck put it, A revolution is going on. "