![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Farmers in California burned it for news cameras, an Oklahoma politician called it "a black infernal creation," and libraries banned it, including the one closest to Steinbeck's home in Salinas, Calif. It was always controversial as well, Shillinglaw writes: "Probably no book published in the twentieth century created the firestorm that The Grapes of Wrath set off." It was attacked both for its politics - many people accused Steinbeck of being a communist - and for what some readers considered obscenity and crude language. ![]()
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