Obscene in the Extreme

The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

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Rick Wartzman

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Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nations 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.

Author Biography:

Rick Wartzman is the Director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University in California and a fellow of the New America Foundation. He is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire.

Release date Australia

September 1st, 2009

Author

Rick Wartzman

Audience

Undergraduate

Illustrations

b/w photos throughout

Pages

320

Dimensions

157x234x20

ISBN-13

9781586487676

Product ID

6107808

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