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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

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by John Steinbeck


  Forgotten Village

  France

  German occupation of

  liberation of

  wine country in

  Francis , king of France

  Franco, Francisco

  Franklin, Benjamin

  French, Warren

  French Resistance

  French Revolution

  Frost, Robert

  Gannett, Lewis

  General Foods

  General Motors

  George , king of England

  Germany, Nazi

  Getting Gertie’s Garter (Collison and Hopwood)

  “Ghost of Anthony Daly, The” (Steinbeck)

  Ghosts (Ibsen)

  Gibey, Daniele

  Gibey, Jenny

  Gibey, Lena

  Gibey, Louis

  Goering, Hermann

  Goering, Madame

  Golden, Harry

  “Golden Handcuff, The” (Steinbeck)

  Goodman, Benny

  “G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges” (Steinbeck)

  Grand Canyon

  Grandmothers of America, Inc.

  Grange

  Grapes of Wrath, The (film)

  Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)

  Gray, Marlene

  Greeks, ancient

  Green Berets

  Greenwich Village Follies

  Gregorian chant

  Growers’ Association

  Guérard, Albert

  Guggenheim, Harry F., xn

  Guinzburg, Thomas H.

  Gunther, John

  Guthrie, Woody

  Half Moon Lake

  Hall, Len

  Halsey, Jesse

  Hamilton, Elizabeth

  Hamilton, Joe

  Hamilton, Katherine

  Hamilton, Samuel (grandfather)

  Hamilton, Thomas

  Hamilton, William

  Hamilton family

  Hammarskjöld, Dag

  Harrison, Rex

  Harte, Bret

  “Harvest Gypsies, The: Squatters’ Camps” (Steinbeck)

  “Have We Gone Soft?,”

  Hawaii

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Heatter, Gabriel

  Hemingway, Ernest

  “Henry Fonda” (Steinbeck)

  Hersey, John

  Hiroshima bombing

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hitler-Stalin pact

  Ho Chi Minh

  Holiday

  Hollywood films

  Homer

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hope, Bob

  Hopkins Marine Station

  House Un-American Activities Committee

  Hudson River

  hurricane Donna

  Huston, John

  Huston, Walter

  Huxley, Aldous

  “I Am a Revolutionary” (Steinbeck)

  Ibsen, Henrik

  “I Go Back to Ireland” (Steinbeck)

  In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck)

  industrial revolution

  “Internationale, The,”

  Ireland

  Isaiah

  isolationism

  Israel

  Italy

  U.S. invasion of

  Jesus Christ

  Jimmy (Piute chief)

  “Joan in All of Us, The” (Steinbeck)

  Joan of Arc

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Samuel

  John the Apostle, Saint

  Journal of a Novel: The “East of Eden” Letters (Steinbeck)

  Juvenal

  Kaltenborn, H. V.

  Kazan, Elia

  Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Kennedy, John F. assassination of

  Kentucky Derby

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Kirk, Mr. (fict.)

  Knight, Goodwin

  Korea, South

  Korean conflict

  Kranepool, Eddie

  Kremlin

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

  Kuralt, Charles

  labor unions:

  organizing of

  repression of

  strikes and picket lines of

  see also migrant labor

  Ladies’ Home Journal

  Lake Tahoe

  Langford, Frances

  “Last Joan, The” (Steinbeck)

  Lawrence, David

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

  Leit, Hans

  Lenin, V. I.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lepanto, Battle of

  Lerner, Alan Jay

  Lerner, Max

  Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur)

  “Letters to Alicia” (Steinbeck)

  “Letter to John Steinbeck,”

  Levinsky, Leaping Lena

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Life

  “. . . like captured fireflies” (Steinbeck)

  “Lilli Marlene” (Schultze and Leit)

  “Lilli Marlene” (Steinbeck)

  Lillymaid

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lindbergh, Charles

  Li Po

  Lippmann, Walter

  Literaturnaya Gazeta

  Little League baseball

  Little Rock, Ark.

  Loesser, Frank

  Log from the “Sea of Cortez,” The (Steinbeck)

  London

  blitz in

  Hyde Park

  Lord’s cricket field

  Piccadilly

  Londonderry

  London Illustrated

  Long, Huey

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longshoremen of San Francisco Lopez, Barry

  Los Angeles, Calif.

  Los Angeles Times

  Lost Generation

  Louis , king of France

  Louisville Courier-Journal

  MacArthur, Douglas

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McGuffey’s First Reader

  McIntosh, Mavis

  McKnight, John

  McKnight, Liz

  “Madelon,”

  “Maiden’s Prayer, The,”

  “Making of a New Yorker” (Steinbeck)

  Malory, Sir Thomas

  Mamie, Aunt

  Mao Zedong

  Marines, U.S.

  Marx, Karl

  Marx Brothers

  Mary Ruth

  Medici, Lorenzo

  Meek, Tom

  Mekong River Delta

  Melville, Herman

  Meredith, Burgess

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)

  Mexico

  migrant labor

  starvation, disease, and death among

  see also labor unions

  Miller, Arthur trial of

  Mirrielees, Edith

  Mister Roberts

  Moby-Dick (Melville)

  “Model T Named ‘It,’ A” (Steinbeck)

  Moffet, Pickles

  Monterey, Calif.

  Cannery Row in

  Chamber of Commerce in

  Monterey Peninsula Herald

  Monterey Trader

  Monteverde, Claudio

  Moon Is Down, The (Steinbeck)

  Moravia, Alberto

  Mormons

  Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory)

  Moscow

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Mussolini, Benito

  My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe)

  “My Short Novels” (Steinbeck)

  “My War with the Ospreys” (Steinbeck)

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Nagasaki bombing

  Nantucket Island

  Napoleon , emperor of France

  Nation

  National Guard

  National Theatre

  Navy Task Group.

  Nazi Germany

  Needham, Wilbur

  Nesbit, Sheriff

  New Orleans, La.

  New Republic

  Newsday

  New York, N.Y.

  Brooklyn
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  Carnegie Hall

  crime in

  Gramercy Park

  JS in

  Madison Square Garden

  New York American

  New York Commercial Advertiser

  New York Daily News

  New Yorker

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Mets

  New York Times

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Nile River Delta

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nobel, Alfred

  “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” (Steinbeck)

  North, Henry Ringling

  North American Review

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  North Vietnam

  Norton, Emperor

  Notre Dame, University of

  Notre Dame Cathedral

  Office of War Information

  Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)

  O’Hara, John

  Oise River

  Okies

  Once There Was a War (Steinbeck)

  “One American in Paris” (fourth piece) (Steinbeck)

  “One American in Paris” (thirteenth piece) (Steinbeck)

  t Airborne Division, U.S.

  O’Neill, Eugene

  “On Fishing” (Steinbeck)

  Only in America (Golden)

  On the Road

  “Open Letter to John Steinbeck, An,”

  “Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko, An” (Steinbeck)

  Otis, Elizabeth

  Oxford English Dictionary

  Pacific Biological Laboratories, Inc.

  Pacific Grove, Calif.

  Packard, Reynolds

  Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

  Papacy, The (McKnight)

  Paramount Pictures

  Paris

  fishing in

  Ile de la Cité

  Paris Review

  Parker, Dorothy

  patriotism

  Patterson, Alicia

  payola

  Pazzi, Pazzolino

  Peace Corps

  Pearl, The (film)

  Pearl, The (Steinbeck)

  Pearl Harbor, attack on

  Peck, Gregory

  Philippine Islands

  Photography

  Pilgrims

  Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)

  Pioda, Mr.

  Pipe Dream (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

  Piute Indians

  “Play-Novelette, The” (Steinbeck)

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Point of No Return

  Poligny

  “Positano” (Steinbeck)

  Powell, Lawrence Clark

  Prescott, Orville

  “Primer on the ’, A” (Steinbeck)

  Prohibition

  Protestantism psychoanalysis

  “Puff, the Magic Dragon” (Steinbeck)

  Punch

  Puritans

  Pyle, Ernie

  racism

  radio

  Rafftery, Blind

  Ramsey, Jack

  “Random Thoughts on Random Dogs” (Steinbeck)

  Ratcliff, Jack

  “Rationale” (Steinbeck)

  Rayburn, Sam

  Reader’s Digest

  Reconstruction

  Red Army

  Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane)

  Red Pony, The (Steinbeck)

  Reese, Peewee

  Republican Party

  Reynolds, Quentin

  Richard , king of England

  Richey, Mr.

  Rickard, Tex

  Ricketts, Edward Flanders “Ed,”

  accidental death of

  character and personality of

  commercial laboratory of

  early years and education of

  JS and

  Ridgway, Matthew B.

  River Patrol Boat

  “Robert Capa” (Steinbeck)

  Roman Catholic Church

  Roman Empire

  Rome

  Rommel, Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  fireside chats of

  JS and

  opposition to

  Rowling, George

  Russia, see Soviet Union

  Russian Journal, A (Steinbeck)

  Russian Orthodox Church

  Russian Revolution

  Rutilius Namatianus

  Sag Harbor, N.Y.

  Saigon

  Salinas, Calif.

  gold fever in

  social structure of

  Tule Swamps

  San Francisco, Calif.

  JS in

  San Francisco Call

  San Francisco News

  San Francisco Wasp

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Savoy, House of

  Scarlatti, Domenico

  Schlesinger, Arthur M.

  Schneider, Louis

  Schultze, Norbert

  Scripps-Howard newspapers

  Sea of Cortez (Steinbeck)

  Seine River

  “September Song” (Weill and Anderson)

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shebley, Lloyd

  Sheffield, Carlton

  Smith, Gerald L. K.

  Smith, H. Allen

  socialism

  “Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books” (Steinbeck)

  “Some Thoughts on Juvenile Delinquency” (Steinbeck)

  “Soul and Guts of France, The” (Steinbeck)

  Southern Pacific Railway

  South Korea

  South Vietnam

  Soviet Union

  see also Kremlin; Moscow; Red Army; Stalin, Joseph

  Spanish War

  Sports Illustrated

  Spreckels, Claus

  Stage

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stanford, Leland

  Stanford University

  “Starvation Under the Orange Trees” (Steinbeck)

  states’ rights

  St. Cleran’s

  Steffens, Lincoln

  Steinbeck, Carol (first wife)

  Steinbeck, Elaine (third wife)

  Steinbeck, Gwyn (second wife)

  Steinbeck, John:

  anticommunism of

  attachment to place, and environmentalism of

  California boyhood and bohemian youth of

  college education of

  on critics

  death of

  on dogs

  early writing of

  fatherhood of

  fiction style of

  first automobile of

  first private-enterprise job of

  first published essay of

  on friends

  gardening and fishing of

  on great teachers

  humor of

  idealism and moral concerns of

  inventions of

  journalistic style of

  left-wing politics of

  motion picture work and sales of

  New York years of

  Nobel Prize of

  personal journals and correspondence of

  pet dogs of

  philanthropy of

  political criticism of

  reviews and literary criticism of

  Scottish-Irish, English, and German heritage of

  on sports

  success and celebrity of

  on television on violence

  war correspondence of

  World War service of

  on writing and books

  youthful jobs of

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinbeck, John Ernst

  Steinbeck, Olive Hamilton

  Steinbeck, Thom

  Stevenson, Adlai

  JS’s letter to

  stock market crash of

  “Stories of the Blitz” (Steinbeck)

  Story Writing (Mirrielees)

  Street, Toby

  Street, Webster

 
Studs Lonigan (Farrell)

  Suetonius

  Sunday, Billy

  Supreme Court, California

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Sursale, Marquis Paolo

  Sweet Thursday (Steinbeck)

  Syndicated Newspaper Editors

  Tacitus

  Taddei, Ezio

  Tahoe, Lake

  Tan An

  Temple, Shirley

  Temple of the Vestal Virgins

  Tempo (Rome)

  h Cavalry, U.S.

  “Terrorism” (Steinbeck)

  Tetrazzini, Luisa

  Texas, University of

  Thailand

  Their Blood Is Strong (Steinbeck)

  “Then My Arm Glassed Up” (Steinbeck)

  Third World

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Thucydides

  Tiberius, emperor of Rome

  Tibet

  Times (London)

  “Tipperary,”

  To a God Unknown (Steinbeck)

  “Tom Collins” (Steinbeck)

  Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck)

  Townsend, Francis E.

  Travels with Charley (Steinbeck)

  “Trial of Arthur Miller, The” (Steinbeck)

  “Troopship” (Steinbeck)

  Trotsky, Leon

  Turner, Lana

  Twain, Mark

  JS compared with

  d Artillery Group, U.S.

  h Division, U.S.

  “Tyranny over the Mind” (Huxley)

  Unita ’

  United Nations (UN)

  United States:

  breast fixation in

  business and money in

  children and parenting in

  civil rights and universal suffrage in

  conservation and environmentalism in

  crime and immorality in,

  dream homes in

  ethics and morals in

  ethnic, racial, and national diversity in

  ethnic and racial prejudice in

  foreign criticism of

  frontier hardships in

  history and foundation of

  hospitality in

  imagination and craftsmanship in

  languages and dialects of

  literature and journalism in

  motto of

  myth and folk wisdom in

  organizations and gatherings in

  politics and government in

  pollution and irresponsible land use in

  power and success of

  presidency in

  problems of aging in

  public lands in

  religious diversity in

  restlessness and intemperateness in

  screwballs and eccentrics in

  slavery in

  spirit of

  United States Foreign Service

  United States Information Service

  Updike, John

  “U.S.A. Today” (Caldwell)

  Vallee, Rudy

  Vatican

  Viet Cong (VC)

  Vietnam, North

  Vietnam, South

  Vietnam War

  JS as war correspondent in

  opposition to

  U.S. bombing missions in

  see also Mekong River Delta; Viet Cong; Vietnam, North; Vietnam, South

 

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