Guthrie, Steinbeck, and the Popular Front
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This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles
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Rick Wartzman spoke on a panel titled “Beyond Woody” at the conference “This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles,” held at the University of Southern California on April 14, 2012, in celebration of the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth. Wartzman is executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Gruadate University and author of “Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’” (2008).
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