Nonfiction Book Group Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, by Rick Wartzman
Lively discussion of a nonfiction book chosen at the previous month's meeting. We have chosen Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, by Rick Wartzman, for our September book. The remarkable story behind a fit of censorship when a cotton and potato grower presided over the burning of the book Grapes of Wrath in downtown Bakersfield and a Kern County librarian who bravely fought back.