America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

by John Steinbeck

  “Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear” (Steinbeck)

  Viking

  “Vikings at Helgoland, The” (Ibsen)

  Virgil

  Virgin Islands

  Viva Zapata!

  “Waiting” (Steinbeck)

  Waiting for Lefty (Odets)

  “Waltzing Matilda,”

  Washington, D.C.

  Bonus Marchers in

  Capitol Building in

  Washington, George

  West, George

  Westmoreland, William C.

  White, E. B.

  Whitman, Walt

  William the Conqueror, king of England

  Willkie, Wendell

  Wilson, Edmund

  Wing Chong

  Winter of Our Discontent, The (Steinbeck)

  “Witches of Salem, The,”

  Wolfe, Thomas

  “Woody Guthrie” (Steinbeck)

  Working Days: The Journals of “The Grapes of Wrath” (Steinbeck)

  World War

  World War

  Allied bombing missions in

  entertaining the troops in

  JS’s service in

  WPA

  “Writers Take Sides,”

  Yatkumi, Takasi

  Yellow Peril

  Yellowstone Park

  Yevtushenko, Galya

  Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

  Yorktown, Battle of

  Yosemite Park

  Zapata, Emiliano

  The following selections were previously published, some under different titles:

  “Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books” appeared in The Author Looks at Format, edited by Ray Freiman (American Institute of Graphic Arts); “Tom Collins” as a foreword to Bringing in the Sheaves, by Windsor Drake; “. . . like captured fireflies” in CTA (California Teaching Association) Journal; “Duel Without Pistols,” “The Soul and Guts of France,” and “I Go Back to Ireland” in Collier’s; “G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges” and “Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot” in The Courier-Journal (Louisville); “A Primer on the ’30s” and “The Trial of Arthur Miller” in Esquire; “I Am a Revolutionary,” “On Fishing,” “The Joan in All of Us,” and “One American in Paris” (fourth and thirteenth pieces) in Le Figaro; “A Model T Named ‘It’” in Ford Times; “Woody Guthrie” as a foreword to Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, compiled by Alan Lomax (Oaks Publications); “Henry Fonda” and “Positano” in Harper’s Bazaar; “Always Something to Do in Salinas,” “My War with the Ospreys,” and “Conversation at Sag Harbor” in Holiday; “Starvation Under the Orange Trees” in Monterey Trader; “Dubious Battle in California” in The Nation; “Making of a New Yorker” in The New York Times Magazine; “Dear Adlai,” “The Ghost of Anthony Daly,” “Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear,” “Action in the Delta,” “Terrorism,” “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” and “An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko” in Newsday; “Robert Capa” in Photography; “Circus” in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Program; “The Golden Handcuff” in San Francisco Examiner; “The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters’ Camps” in San Francisco News; “Atque Vale,” “Random Thoughts on Random Dogs” and “Critics—from a Writer’s Viewpoint” in The Saturday Review; “Adlai Stevenson” as a foreword to Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, edited by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin (Random House); “Then My Arm Glassed Up” in Sports Illustrated; “The Play-Novelette” in Stage; “Rationale” in Steinbeck and His Critics, edited by Ernest W. Tedlock and C. V. Wicker (University of New Mexico Press); “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” in Story; “My Short Novels” in Wings; and a selection from Writers Take Sides (League of American Writers).

  1 Source notes in the editors’ introductions refer to works listed in “Works Cited”; unpublished letters, primarily the Harry Guggenheim/John Steinbeck letters, are cited by date.

  2 The photographs from the original 1966 edition of America and Americans are not included.