
Obscene in the Extreme
The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Rick Wartzman(Author)
PublicAffairs,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-58648-767-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, California,the Joads' newfound home,the 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."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
b/w photos throughout
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58648-767-6 (9781586487676)
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Person
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.