{"product_id":"america-and-americans-and-selected-nonfiction-isbn-9780142437414","title":"America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica and Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody Guthrie, the Vietnam War and more. This edition is edited by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw and Steinbeck biographer Jackson J. Benson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI\u003cp\u003e Places of the Heart 1\u003cbr\u003e Always Something to Do in Salinas 4\u003cbr\u003e The Golden Handcuff 13\u003cbr\u003e A Primer on the '30s 17\u003cbr\u003e Making of a New Yorker 32\u003cbr\u003e My War with the Ospreys 41\u003cbr\u003e Conversation at Sag Harbor 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Engaged Artist 65\u003cbr\u003e Dubious Battle in California 71\u003cbr\u003e The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters' Camps 78\u003cbr\u003e Starvation Under the Orange Trees 83\u003cbr\u003e From Writers Take Sides 88\u003cbr\u003e I Am a Revolutionary 89\u003cbr\u003e Duel Without Pistols 91\u003cbr\u003e The Trial of Arthur Miller 101\u003cbr\u003e Atque Vale 105\u003cbr\u003e Dear Adlai 108\u003cbr\u003e G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges 110\u003cbr\u003e L'Envoi 112\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Occasional Pieces 117\u003cbr\u003e Then My Arm Glassed Up 125\u003cbr\u003e On Fishing 132\u003cbr\u003e Circus 136\u003cbr\u003e Random Thoughts on Random Dogs 139\u003cbr\u003e ... like captured fireflies 142\u003cbr\u003e The Joan in All of Us 144\u003cbr\u003e A Model T Named \"It\" 147\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On Writing 151\u003cbr\u003e The Play-Novelette 155\u003cbr\u003e My Short Novels 158\u003cbr\u003e Rationale 161\u003cbr\u003e Critics-from a Writer's Viewpoint 163\u003cbr\u003e Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books 167\u003cbr\u003e Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 172\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Friends 175\u003cbr\u003e From About Ed Ricketts 179\u003cbr\u003e Ernie Pyle 213\u003cbr\u003e Tom Collins 215\u003cbr\u003e Robert Capa 217\u003cbr\u003e Adlai Stevenson 219\u003cbr\u003e Henry Fonda 223\u003cbr\u003e Woody Guthrie 225\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Journalist Abroad 227\u003cbr\u003e The Soul and Guts of France 233\u003cbr\u003e One American in Paris (fourth piece) 246\u003cbr\u003e One American in Paris (thirteenth piece) 248\u003cbr\u003e Positano 251\u003cbr\u003e Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot 259\u003cbr\u003e I Go Back to Ireland 262\u003cbr\u003e The Ghost of Anthony Daly 270\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e War Correspondent 275\u003cbr\u003e Troopship 282\u003cbr\u003e Waiting 285\u003cbr\u003e Stories of the Blitz 288\u003cbr\u003e Lilli Marlene 291\u003cbr\u003e Bob Hope 293\u003cbr\u003e Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear 296\u003cbr\u003e Action in the Delta 299\u003cbr\u003e Terrorism 304\u003cbr\u003e Puff, the Magic Dragon 307\u003cbr\u003e An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eVIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e America and Americans 313\u003cbr\u003e Foreword 317\u003cbr\u003e E Pluribus Unum 319\u003cbr\u003e Paradox and Dream 330\u003cbr\u003e Government of the People 339\u003cbr\u003e Created Equal 346\u003cbr\u003e Genus Americanus 354\u003cbr\u003e The Pursuit of Happiness 369\u003cbr\u003e Americans and the Land 377\u003cbr\u003e Americans and the World 383\u003cbr\u003e Americans and the Future 392\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfterword 403\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited 405\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography of Steinbeck's Nonfiction 407\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIndex 417\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A feast of good reading.\" —\u003cb\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Captures Steinbeck's fierce and unrelenting moral vision, while providing an intriguing glimpse of the writer's life and work.\" —\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, \u003ci\u003eCup of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e (1929).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, \u003ci\u003eThe Pastures of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (1932) and \u003ci\u003eTo a God Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Long Valley\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with \u003ci\u003eTortilla Flat\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: \u003ci\u003eIn Dubious Battle\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), \u003ci\u003eOf Mice and Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/i\u003e (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with \u003ci\u003eSea of Cortez\u003c\/i\u003e (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette \u003ci\u003eThe Moon is Down\u003c\/i\u003e (1942).\u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), \u003ci\u003eThe Wayward Bus\u003c\/i\u003e (1948), another experimental drama, \u003ci\u003eBurning Bright\u003c\/i\u003e(1950), and \u003ci\u003eThe Log from the Sea of Cortez\u003c\/i\u003e (1951) preceded publication of the monumental \u003ci\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include \u003ci\u003eSweet Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), \u003ci\u003eThe Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eOnce There Was a War\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003eThe Winter of Our Discontent \u003c\/i\u003e(1961),\u003ci\u003eTravels with Charley in Search of America\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eAmerica and Americans\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), and the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eJournal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eViva Zapata!\u003c\/i\u003e(1975), \u003ci\u003eThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), and \u003ci\u003eWorking Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e (1989).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJackson J. Benson\u003c\/b\u003e teaches American Literature at San Diego State University. His biography, \u003ci\u003eThe True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the PEN USA West award for nonfiction. He lives in La Mesa, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Shillinglaw\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English San Jose State University. 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