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To see the book as just an interesting slice of Americana is to miss the point. Mr. Steinbeck was present at a number of important historical events in the life of America, especially during his travels through the southern states during their turbulent time of integration. He witnessed the integration of a school with all its protests and he recorded it without political posturing, without ulterior motive, simply as a witness to the people and the event. He described the birth of the modern interstate system and chronicled the effects it was beginning and could be expected to have on the small roadside towns throughout the nation. He recorded the rise of the motor hotel and the advent of the recreational vehicle. These may not seem significant now, but think how ubiquitous they have now become. Can you really imagine traveling by automobile these days without seeing a camper or motor home, or passing a Motel 6?
Mr. Steinbeck also chronicles the more subtle aspects of American life - the homogenization of both the country's language and its food, the form, style, and purpose of religion in America, and the mind of the people. This last is perhaps the most interesting. Along with John Dos Passos and Studs Terkel, Mr. Steinbeck has given us a great gift by having taken the time simply to talk with people and record what they said. Not what the policy makers and captains of industry said, but what Bill and Mary Jones of Cedar Rapids said. He had the restraint to listen, to follow along in conversations rather than to lead them. This in itself is not only a lost art, but a lost character quality among our nations people, especially our intellectuals and artists.
This is not only a book that should be read, it is a book that should be loaned. Loan it to everyone you know. I myself own three copies just to have two to loan to others. The book is that good and that important. We will not have another writer of such quality; let us therefor take all the more effort to appreciate his life's work.
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