1939
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Joad family, Dust Bowl migrants, travel west to California in search of work and dignity, only to find exploitation and despair. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was publicly burned in Kern County, California in 1939, banned by the Buffalo, New York public library system, and condemned as communist propaganda — yet it became one of America's most celebrated novels.
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Why this book is challenged
- •communist propaganda allegations
- •profanity
- •sexual references
- •challenges to authority
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