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

Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it...
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Author: Rick Wartzman
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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath by Wartzman, Rick

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

¥4,159

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

¥4,159
Author: Rick Wartzman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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, California -- the Joads' newfound home -- the 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 burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word. But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?

Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America -- a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be a revolution . . . going on.

Author: Rick Wartzman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781586487676

About the Author
Rick Wartzman is director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University. He also writes about the world of work for Fortune magazine online. Before joining the Drucker Institute in 2007 as its founding executive director, Rick worked for two decades as a reporter, editor and columnist at the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. While business editor of the Times, he helped shape a three-part series on Wal-Mart's impact on the economy and society, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

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