books by Rick Wartzman
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Rick Wartzman
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath
Rick Wartzman
PublicAffairs
, 2008
Likely to Become the Defining Work on the History of Labor and Farming in the Valley in the 1930s
Was the "Grapes of Wrath" a nonfiction work disguised as a novel? Apparently, the County Board of Supervisors in Kern County California thought just that. The book, and Steinbeck, irritated them to the point that they decided to ban the work and prohibit its sale from ...
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
Mark Arax
, Rick Wartzman
PublicAffairs
, 2005
Another Fine Chapter in California's History
This particular chapter details the rise of a farming empire in California's Central Valley. Coming from Greene County Georgia, the Boswell family built this empire largely on the backs of migrant labor and water--lots and lots of water. One other point: on the way ...
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