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Photos: Who Is Fred Ross Sr.?and Woody Guthrie, 1939 Ross Sr. began community organizing in the California labor camps depicted by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath ." Folk singer Woody Guthrie took his guitar to the cotton fields and sang to the migrant workers. Fred
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The Campaign to Award Fred Ross Sr. a Medal of Freedomthemselves. He started out as an organizer of migrant workers in the same California labor camps depicted by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath ." The reason for his initial foray into community organizing was simple. "He just had to do something
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100 Places to Visit Before You Die, Reduxaround the world, including ones from Mali and Ethiopia, descend on this old goldmining town made famous by novelist John Steinbeck . Northam calls Dawson far-flung, likable, and rustic. Writer Catherine Price offers a different sort of advice
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Oprah Winfrey Friend Questions New Tell-All BiographyEric Butterworth "A Fine Balance," by Rohinton Mistry "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver " East of Eden ," by John Steinbeck "The Pillars of the Earth," by Ken Follett "The Known World," by Edward P. Jones "The Bluest Eye
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The old is new again at 'Saturday Evening Post'
the Post has printed work from such authors as C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, William Saroyan, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lorimer, who became editor in 1899, made the cover into an artists
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'GMA' List of the Day: Best Fall Foliage Drives and Lodgingthrough Thursday at the Blue Ridge Music Center, located in Galax, Va. 3. Route 66 Immortalized by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath , this original mega highway has long personified the American dream of escaping hard times and making
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Route 66 Road Trip: Okla. to N.M.The most striking thing about old Route 66 is how much is gone. We came to the Mother Road, as John Steinbeck once called it, expecting a nostalgic tour of days gone by. That's what most people expect. That's why they come. They
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Poll on the economy: Americans gloomier, for now
that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940
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Americans gloomier, for now
that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940
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Working Wounded: Management Lessons From 'The Queen'
you'll make the most of your time on the throne. Quote of the Week "No one wants advice -- only corroboration." -- John Steinbeck Book Excerpt of the Week From: "Talent: Develop it, sell it, be it" by Tom Peters (DK, 2006) "Fire the planners
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National Traumas Can Hit All Americans Hard
were working on an opera on the West Side of Manhattan, far away from the hurricane zone, based on "The Grapes of Wrath ," John Steinbeck 's novel about the suffering caused by the Dust Bowl. As they worked, they watched the misery caused
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Lessons from the Dust Bowl for Hurricane Survivors
Lessons from the Dust Bowl It's a lasting images from the Dust Bowl years -- the cars full of people that author John Steinbeck described as "lonely and perplexed because they had come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because
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Excerpt: 'Prison Angel'
them. I'm afraid to do that." She has given Frank many of her favorite books, including Once There Was a War, John Steinbeck 's dispatches of World War II. He never liked to read books before but now says he sees what he was missing. He
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Voices of Long-Gone Novelistsauthors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from London. Grapes of wrath tells the story of the interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have
trove. A voice recordings English and American authors from Virginia -- to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from London. Grapes of wrath tells the story of the Joseph family in search of a better life during the depths of the Great Depression. -- lose everything I had. In a collection of rare interviews -- here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the definitive story. But regular Americans caught up in extra real economic or. When I was a group throughout there was field naturally would certainly angers. The depression -- without the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been hurt at all. But now the British library has put together two sets of interviews from -
10 Years of Oprah Magazineten books that common theme among the the books what she feels that she has learned something from all of them east of Eden John Steinbeck a new by The Toni Morrison's a blue asylum is. And remains a voracious reader. And we're gonna celebrate
what she feels that she has learned something from all of them east of Eden John Steinbeck a new -- by -- -- The Toni Morrison's a blue asylum is. And remains a voracious reader. And we're gonna celebrate -
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Webcast: Buckeye State Stumping, Terrorism's Frontlines, Rare RecordingsAmerican authors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from one collection of rare interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been
trove. A voice recordings English and American authors from Virginia -- to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from one. Grapes of -- tells the story of the Joseph family in search of a better life during the depths of the Great Depression. -- lose everything I had. In a collection of rare interviews -- here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the definitive story. But regular Americans caught up in extra real economic or. When I was a group throughout there was still naturally would certainly angers. The depression go to without the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been hurt at all. But now the British library has put together two sets of interviews from -
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related to Truman. And of -- he's also related -- Winston Churchill John Steinbeck . Can. And Dick -- you mentioned as well. -- -- -- -- -- -- You get the idea to -- these politicians
