Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. In 1999, the Journalism faculty of New York University listed The Harvest Gypsies as 31 on its Top 100 List of the Centurys Best American Journalism. Here he found once strong, independent farmers 'the backbone of rural America' so reduced in dignity, beaten in spirit, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been 'cast down to a kind of subhumanity.' He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help committees, child nurseries, quilting and sewing projects, and decent sanitation were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. When they need us they call us migrants, and when weve picked their crop, were bums and we got to get out(Steinbeck). The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual. Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for 'The San Francisco News' in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.

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