America and Americans Author:John Steinbeck Unsparingly, though with humor, affection, and his own matchless vein of anecdote, John Steinbeck describes America as he sees it: — with its natural wealth, its moral and political shortcomings: with a gallery of American types: heroes, eccentrics, Indians, teenagers, misguided parents, old people; with the paradoxes of America's history and the... more » promise of its future. Here, in Steinbeck's own words,is
"a book of opinions, unashamed and individual...inspired by curiosity, impatience, some anger, and a passionate love of America and Americans."« less