By Bill Steigerwald
ISBN-10: 1481078763
ISBN-13: 9781481078764
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Bill Steigerwald had an excellent plan for displaying how a lot the US has replaced within the final part century -- or so he suggestion. He’d easily retrace the 10,000-mile direction John Steinbeck took round the united states in 1960 for his cherished bestseller Travels With Charley.
Then he’d evaluate the the United States he observed with the rustic Steinbeck defined in his vintage street booklet. but if the intrepid ex-newspaperman from Pittsburgh all started gaining knowledge of Steinbeck’s journey he exposed a stunning literary scoop. Steinbeck’s iconic nonfiction ebook used to be a fraud. Travels With Charley used to be not only filled with fiction. It used to be a misleading and cheating account of the good novelist’s real street journey. Steigerwald made his personal street journey precisely 50 years after Steinbeck did. Chasing and fact-checking Steinbeck’s ghost for 11,276 miles and forty three days, assembly hundreds and hundreds of normal americans, frequently dozing at the back of his motor vehicle in Wal-Mart parking plenty, he drove from Maine to California to Texas.
Despite the nice Recession and nationwide headlines dripping with gloom and doom, Steigerwald came across an the United States alongside the Steinbeck street that used to be tremendous, empty, wealthy, secure, fresh, filthy rich and pleasant. He didn’t simply reaffirm his religion in the United States to resist the lengthy teach of abuse from Washington and Wall road, besides the fact that. He additionally uncovered the half-century-old myths of Travels With Charley, ruffled the PhDs of the country’s best Steinbeck students and compelled “Charley’s” writer to ultimately inform the reality. Steigerwald is a well-traveled journalist and veteran libertarian columnist.
With the spirit of a teenage driving force, a dogged pursuit of the proof and a clean viewpoint approximately the United States proudly situated within the middle of Flyover nation now not long island, he spins the tale of his trip with Steinbeck’s ghost right into a provocative, news-making and wonderful American highway booklet.
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All through the 1990s I heard it while at BBC documentaries and World in Action. For the last decade as budgets got tighter and the information world changed at lightning pace the same arguments that gained currency in 1954 have now have become an accepted truth. (Mair and Keeble 2011, 2) It has been common practice to describe hard news investigative journalism as in its death throes, starved of resources and far too serious and expensive to survive in a media world of celebrity superficiality.
Dogging Steinbeck: How I went in search of John Steinbeck's America, found my own America, and exposed the truth about 'Travels With Charley' by Bill Steigerwald
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