![]() ![]() ![]() The paper’s editor, George West, hired Steinbeck to chronicle the hardships of migrant workers in rural California-and there was no paucity of material. ![]() John Steinbeck explored this same break with the American promise in writing “The Harvest Gypsies,” a series of articles published in the San Francisco News for one week in October 1936. The magazine summarized Springsteen’s decree as such: “These are times for lamentations, for measuring how much of the American promise has been broken or abandoned and how much of our future is transfigured into a vista of ruin. Bruce Springsteen’s 1995 album and title-track single “The Ghost of Tom Joad” aligned with Steinbeck’s own documentary mission and gave voice to society’s downtrodden through what Rolling Stone called “plaintive, bitter epiphanies” that resembled the “Depression-era sensibility” of Woody Guthrie. ![]()
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