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In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history.

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Swensen's holistic and groundbreaking study is a fascinating and scrupulously researched account of how several FSA photographers and John Steinbeck worked in sync, 'walking in each other's paths.' Those converging roads make for a fascinating story, one never told in such detail as Swensen captures in this book. He weaves both familiar and unfamiliar stories together in the most comprehensive study to date of the interplay between Steinbeck's fictional Joads and their historic counterparts."" - Susan Shillinglaw, author of On Reading The Grapes of Wrath

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      Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9780806148274, 978-0806148274
      ISBN10: 0806148276

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history.

      Trade Review
      Swensen's holistic and groundbreaking study is a fascinating and scrupulously researched account of how several FSA photographers and John Steinbeck worked in sync, 'walking in each other's paths.' Those converging roads make for a fascinating story, one never told in such detail as Swensen captures in this book. He weaves both familiar and unfamiliar stories together in the most comprehensive study to date of the interplay between Steinbeck's fictional Joads and their historic counterparts."" - Susan Shillinglaw, author of On Reading The Grapes of Wrath

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