# Obscene in the Extreme

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- Book: [Obscene in the Extreme](https://www.bookquiver.com/rick-wartzman/obscene-in-the-extreme) ([Obscene in the Extreme.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rick-wartzman/obscene-in-the-extreme.md))
- Authors: [Rick Wartzman](https://www.bookquiver.com/rick-wartzman)
- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-767-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. 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 that fit of censorship, a moment when several lives collided as part of a larger class struggle roiling the nation. It is a superb historical narrative that serves as an engaging window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America, when as Steinbeck put it, A revolution is going on."