America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by Steinbeck, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Introduction I. - PLACES OF THE HEART

Always Something to Do in Salinas The Golden Handcuff A Primer on the ’30s Making of a New Yorker My War with the Ospreys Conversation at Sag Harbor

II. - ENGAGED ARTIST

Dubious Battle in California The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters’ Camps Starvation Under the Orange Trees From Writers Take Sides I Am a Revolutionary Duel Without Pistols The Trial of Arthur Miller Atque Vale Dear Adlai G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges L’Envoi

III. - OCCASIONAL PIECES

Then My Arm Glassed Up On Fishing Circus Random Thoughts on Random Dogs ... like captured fireflies The Joan in All of Us A Model T Named “It”

IV. - ON WRITING

The Play-Novelette My Short Novels Rationale Critics—from a Writer’s Viewpoint Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

V. - FRIENDS

From About Ed Ricketts Ernie Pyle Tom Collins Robert Capa Adlai Stevenson Henry Fonda Woody Guthrie

VI. - JOURNALIST ABROAD

The Soul and Guts of France One American in Paris - (fourth piece) One American in Paris - (thirteenth piece) Positano Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot I Go Back to Ireland The Ghost of Anthony Daly

VII. - WAR CORRESPONDENT

Troopship Waiting Stories of the Blitz Lilli Marlene Bob Hope Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear Action in the Delta Terrorism Puff, the Magic Dragon An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko

VIII. - AMERICA AND AMERICANS

Foreword E Pluribus Unum Paradox and Dream Government of the People Created Equal Genus Americanus The Pursuit of Happiness Americans and the Land Americans and the World Americans and the Future Afterword

WORKS CITED SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STEINBECK’S NONFICTION INDEX