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02890aam a2200457Ia 4500 001 CE29E3909AD211E8AB5A4B6797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180808010347 008 090526t20092008nyuac b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1586487671 020 $a 9781586487676 035 $a (OCoLC)352541061 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IAO $d MCT $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d WSL $d OCLCA $d LVY $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 050 4 $a PS3537.T3234 $b G895 2009 082 04 $a 363.31 $2 22 100 1 $a Wartzman, Rick. 245 10 $a Obscene in the extreme : $b the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / $c Rick Wartzman. 260 $a New York : $b PublicAffairs, $c [2009], ©2008. 300 $a vii, 308 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 23 cm 500 $a "Reprint edition (September 1, 2009)"--Amazon product details. 520 $a "Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California--the Joads' newfound home--the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W.B. "Bill" Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: "We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word." But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. "If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?" Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America--a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be "a revolution ... going on.'"--Publisher's description. 505 0 $a Dark Days -- Monday -- Tuesday -- Wednesday -- Thursday -- Friday, Saturday, Sunday -- Some Day. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index. 600 10 $a Steinbeck, John, $d 1902-1968. $t Grapes of wrath. 600 10 $a Steinbeck, John, $d 1902-1968 $x Censorship. 650 0 $a Challenged books. 650 0 $a Prohibited books. 651 0 $a Kern County (Calif.) $x History $y 20th century. 600 17 $a Steinbeck, John, $d 1902-1968 $0 (OCoLC)fst00039570. $2 fast 630 07 $a Grapes of wrath (Steinbeck, John) $0 (OCoLC)fst01356072. $2 fast 650 7 $a Censorship. $0 (OCoLC)fst00850568. $2 fast 650 7 $a Challenged books. $0 (OCoLC)fst00851884. $2 fast 650 7 $a Prohibited books. $0 (OCoLC)fst01078755. $2 fast 651 7 $a California $z Kern County. $0 (OCoLC)fst01204038. $2 fast 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999. $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20180808033239.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE29E3909AD211E8AB5A4B6797128E48 994 $a C0 $b LVYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search