There is a wonderful Ken Burns documentary on this whole period, explaining the causes and consequences. Ken Burns should be hailed as a national treasure, though I expect most repulitards would have him executed for telling the truth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LZ...

I will die on the hill that says this is one of the greatest books ever written. No finer example of literary perfection than the opening passages of this book, describing the land in which the tale is set. An absolute masterpiece in the English language.

Steinbeck was always an advocate for the oppressed.

I read The Grapes of Wrath as a teenager and it really made an impression on me. I've never forgotten it. I think it shaped my politics. Must give it another read.

The thing is, Steinbeck just put elegance to a natural phenomenon. He didn't invent anything. Banning him does nothing to the bitch of a world that bore him. Ban him, but the conditions that created him remain to make the next.

I've just borrowed the book from my library here in the UK! The fact that it is subject to banning over there inspired me to choose it!

It is a great book. I abandoned it on my first attempt because of the dialect of the main protagonists, but once I got familiar with that it was fine.

Awesome novel! Thanks for reminding us about this amazing story!!

"profit cannot be taken from an orange"

Looool Did not know they are banning the most influential and significant American writer 😂😂😂 damn, how insecure should you be? As a Ukrainian, I simply cannot comprehend. And all the way claiming "freedom of speech". Yeah, freedom of speech my ass 😂

Well. I guess Upton Sinclair is Right Out. 👇

Wow

If you cannot make it to a school board meeting, get on the phone or e-mail and tell them what you think about banning books. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.co

I did read it, in High School.

I'm almost done with the Hyperion series (4 books) - I've read them many times. I don't know if they've been banned but they sure are thought-provoking!

My favorite book of all time. I’m 66 now and haven’t read it for years. It’s time for a reread.

I forgot that was on the banned list ! Reading them all again lately 💚

It's a damn good thing that times have not changed one little bit. Sooo, keep that filthy book banned!

Please support your local library by borrowing and reading them. 🙂

Great Book & surprisingly relevant for the times.

I’ve read that, and the Harriet Tubman biography, Road To Freedom that documents her work, childhood and things like manumission of that time. The accounts of Edward R Murrow’s nightly news battle against McCarthyism have also been removed from curriculum.

It was on the required reading list for me in high school!

I think of this book all the time. I reread it in 2015. My parents lived through this - barely. It’s an ominous sign to feel their childhood pain, trauma, & sorrow, even though they are gone. Never in their lives could they imagine this happening again. Capitalism without regulation kills people.

A classic. Wonderful.

It saddens me this book is banned.

Are ye kidding me? Steinbeck banned?? Ffs.

This book banning nonsense has got to stop. So many advocates of it have never read and/or understood what they’re banning.

Why is it banned? It is a brilliant classic.

What kills me about this is that Steinbeck, like so many others through the centuries, keeps talking about 'wrath' of the lower classes as though that's a warning to the rich. Yeah. Sure. No one will do anything. The wrath won't go anywhere useful. It's just empty threats.

The US peoples will soon be the least literate and most poorly educated in the Western countries. Humiliating

Read that in school.

Steinbeck was an empathetic literary genius. Trump is a racketeer.

It's been years since I've read the book. It's very moving. A must read for everyone 👍

"there's a president of the bank, there's a board of directors. I'll fill up the magazine of the rifle and go into the bank... but where does it stop? who can we shoot?... I don't know, maybe there isn't nobody to shoot at all. maybe the thing isn't men at all" Steinbeck goes so hard

It’s been a long time since I read it. I remember the book as being an excellent read.

Powerful writing and an important allegory.

Every banned book is worth reading. If there’s something they don’t want you to know, it’s probably important that you do.

Reading it now, well, not at this very moment.