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Omaha Steve

(103,464 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2015, 09:00 PM Apr 2015

4-14-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1939 in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/april-14-1429016037/

On this day in Labor History the year was 1939. This was the day readers were first introduced to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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4-14-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1939 in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP

Thanks, O. Steve vlakitti Apr 2015 #1

vlakitti

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1. Thanks, O. Steve

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Wed Apr 15, 2015, 12:02 AM

Apr 2015

The Grapes of Wrath is one of the finest working-class novels ever written in this country, up there with John Dos Passos' USA trilogy of several years earlier. I think Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle is even better than the Joad epic, but that's a private prejudice. The portrait of brutal and evil California agribusiness in the Grapes of Wrath is unforgettable.

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