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CA EVENT: Censorship and Politics

Lessons from the Burning & Banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"

  • In-Person
  • New America
    740 15th St NW #900
    Washington, D.C. 20005
  • 1PM – 2:30PM EDT

Come hear more about the book that Studs Terkel calls “revelatory and stunning”; that Anthony Lewis praises for providing “a dramatic glimpse of a dark American past”; that Publishers Weekly says “artfully weaves the personal and the political” in a way that “readers will find engaging on more than one level.”

Rick Wartzman, Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, will lecture on his new book, “Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” — a powerful narrative that has particular resonance today.

Lunch will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored by the California Research Bureau.

Location

Library and Courts Building I, Room 500
914 Capitol Mall

Sacramento, CA, 95814

See map: Google Maps

Participants

Featured Speaker

  • Rick Wartzman
    Irvine Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
    Director, Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University
    Columnist, BusinessWeek Magazine

Introduction


  • Leif Wellington Haase

    Director, California Program
    New America Foundation