Steinbeck's outrage leads to an emotional indictment of then-current farm management as ``a system of terrorism that would be unusual in the Fascist nations of the world.'' Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history. Especially interesting are the final articles, which analyze the history of California's migrant populations and propose federal programs to alleviate their distress. Steinbeck's journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel (but critics of Steinbeck will beware his heavy-handed style is only slightly less obtrusive here). And as Wollenberg, a history professor at Vista College, Berkeley, Calif., points out, the plight of the newly destitute and newly homeless has particular relevance today. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1,157 ratings, 3.91 average rating, 128 reviews Open Preview The Harvest Gypsies Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 The passion to produce is very great.

Reprinted here, Steinbeck's observations of migrant families and of their exploitation by wealthy agriculturists have not lost their potency. The Harvest Gypsies is a series of articles by John Steinbeck written on commission for The San Francisco News focusing on the lives and times of migrant workers in Californias Central Valley. In 1936, a San Francisco newspaper commissioned Steinbeck to write a week-long series of articles about California's underclass of white migrant farm workers, who became the models and the inspiration for The Grapes of Wrath. Reprinted here as a primary source with 24 black-and-white photographs (many by Dorothea Lange), his eyewitness accounts retain all their power to evoke the.

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