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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (Unabridged) - John Steinbeck

By John Steinbeck

Release Date: 2020-10-06

Genre: History

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A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in Californiaā€™s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms - John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands who made their way west to work as farm laborers.

With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squattersā€™ camps and Hoovervilles of rural California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeckā€™s masterpiece. 

'ā€Steinbeckā€™s potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera - the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.ā€ (San Francisco Review of Books)

ā€œSteinbeckā€™s journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel.... Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history.ā€ (Publishers Weekly)

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (Unabridged) - John Steinbeck

By John Steinbeck

Release Date: 2020-10-06

Genre: History

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in Californiaā€™s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms - John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands who made their way west to work as farm laborers.

With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squattersā€™ camps and Hoovervilles of rural California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeckā€™s masterpiece. 

'ā€Steinbeckā€™s potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera - the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.ā€ (San Francisco Review of Books)

ā€œSteinbeckā€™s journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel.... Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history.ā€ (Publishers Weekly)

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