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In the 1930s, drought and horrific dust storms turned the
once-fertile agricultural lands of mid-America into virtual
dust bowls and wastelands. Thousands of destitute farmers
packed their families and belongings into and onto their cars
and left their homes in search of agricultural work in central
California. Their plight and the politics of that day are told in
the novel "The Grapes of Wrath." Published in 1939 by
California writer John Steinbeck, the book won the 1940
Pulitzer Prize. In his book, Steinbeck champions the
downtrodden migrants, as he follows the Joad family from
Oklahoma to California. Tom Joad, eldest son, is the book's
protagonist and his efforts to save his family are the core of
the book's story. As Steinbeck writes in his book, "The
moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families
which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and
died on forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in.
And they scampered about, looking for......

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