The Roosevelts and John Steinbeck: 75th Anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published 75 years ago in April 1939. The bestselling book of the year, with more than 400,000 copies in print, it also won… 
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