Grapes of Wrath

>>9314789
Yes

>>9314789

The Dust Bowl.

>>9314814
Thanks, looking it up now

>>9314789
It was real to an extent, but remember Steinbeck was writing with a purpose.

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>>9314789
The book is mostly true and took place in the 1930's. What followed was the New Deal of FDR.

I've been meaning to read a book called Right Out of California which is probably the most recent history of the period. The author is the chair of the history dept. at my uni and the book links the practices and problems of that time period to the following trends in American conservatism (up to 2015).

>>9314789
i've always liked steinbeck but the last time i mentioned it here i got shit on

>>9314789
The American essayist Loren Eisley has written about his time as a train-hopping tramp during the Depression-- stark, cool writing about the true horror (forget romance) of those hard scrabble times. An interesting film, which begins as a comedy but morphs into a social commentary of those times (and starring Veronica Lake in her prime) is Sullivan's Travels.