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, teen-agers, misguided parents, old people; with the paradoxes of America's history and th... more »e 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