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Why Steinbeck’s Masterpiece is Disturbingly Relevant to Trump’s America

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‘The Grapes of Wrath’ turns 80 today, and Nobel-prize winning novelist John Steinbeck’s tale of migrants shunned, harassed, and murdered feels horribly contemporary.

Nicolaus Mills
Nicolaus Mills
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Nicolaus Mills

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