Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"

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Coinciding with Banned Books Week is the revelatory story behind the 1939 burning and banning of Steinbeck's book in Kern County, Calif., home of the fictional Joads.

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