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Crossing Steinbeck's America
As America grapples with a deepening recession, Paul Mason travels the country down the same road as John Steinbeck's migrants in The Grapes of Wrath.
As America grapples with a deepening recession, white-collar workers are now losing their homes in increasing numbers. Paul Mason travels the country down the same road as John Steinbeck's migrants in The Grapes of Wrath. Visiting homeless shelters along the way, he unexpectedly finds a growing number of middle-class people who have ended up on the street.
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