{"product_id":"the-harvest-gypsies-9781890771614","title":"The Harvest Gypsies","description":"Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco News\u003c\/i\u003e in 1936, three years before \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Harvest Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Steinbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Heyday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781890771614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteinbeck, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, CA, in 1902. Steinbeck realized that the migration caused by the Dust Bowl was drastically changing the labor forces of California from the foreign \"cheap labor\" to a higher standard of living for the farm workers. He felt for these migrant workers, and with the help of a friend, Tom Collins, unsuccessfully tried to get federal aid and sympathy, as shown in the articles of \u003ci\u003eThe Harvest Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e. Steinbeck continued in his crusade, publishing \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWollenberg, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Charles Wollenberg, former Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Berkeley City College, is coeditor, with Marcia A. Eymann, of \u003ci\u003eWhat's Going On? California and the Vietnam Era\u003c\/i\u003e (University of California Press, 2004) and author of \u003ci\u003eMarinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito\u003c\/i\u003e (Western Heritage, 1990) and \u003ci\u003eBerkeley: A City in History\u003c\/i\u003e (University of California Press, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heyday Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39828846149747,"sku":"9781890771614","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_51179bb0-6c4b-480a-8e57-b28277a47bd5.jpg?v=1644603467","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-harvest-gypsies-9781890771614","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}