1936, ISBN: 0809549638

[SR: 8683719], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780809549634], Borgo Pr, Borgo Pr, Book, [PU: Borgo Pr], Borgo Pr, Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered … Mehr…

[SR: 8683719], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780809549634], Borgo Pr, Borgo Pr, Book, [PU: Borgo Pr], Borgo Pr, Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, three years before _The Grapes of Wrath_. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmers—the backbone of rural America—so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been "cast down to a kind of subhumanity." He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. _The Harvest Gypsies_ gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck's masterpiece, _The Grapes of Wrath_. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original a, 12040, Journalism & Nonfiction, 12015, Writing, 5267707011, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, 21, Education & Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 491558, Journalism, 468226, Communication & Journalism, 465600, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, 2349030011, Specialty Boutique, 283155, Books<

1991, ISBN: 0809549638

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[EAN: 9780809549634], Fine, [PU: Reader's Digest Press, Pleasantville NY], Language Arts & Disciplines|Journalism, 445pp. Blue/green cloth with gilt lettering. 1st Ed. Tight, square, brig… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780809549634], Fine, [PU: Reader's Digest Press, Pleasantville NY], Language Arts & Disciplines|Journalism, 445pp. Blue/green cloth with gilt lettering. 1st Ed. Tight, square, bright copy. No internal markings or remainder mark. Illustrated by James Hays. Afterword by Bernard A. Weisbenger. "AS NEW" copy. World's Best Reading pamphlet laid in.<

1991, ISBN: 0809549638

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780809549634], Fine, [PU: Reader's Digest Press, Pleasantville NY], Language Arts & Disciplines|Journalism, 445pp. Blue/green cloth with gilt lettering. 1st Ed. Tight, square, brig… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780809549634], Fine, [PU: Reader's Digest Press, Pleasantville NY], Language Arts & Disciplines|Journalism, 445pp. Blue/green cloth with gilt lettering. 1st Ed. Tight, square, bright copy. No internal markings or remainder mark. Illustrated by James Hays. Afterword by Bernard A. Weisbenger. "AS NEW" copy. World's Best Reading pamphlet laid in.<