CA EVENT: Censorship and Politics

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

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.

10/10/2008 - 12:00pm
10/10/2008 - 1:30pm
Library and Courts Building I, Room 500
914 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, 95814
United States
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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