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Title: No "Grapes of Wrath" Here
Review: As a dedicated populist, I was looking forward to reading this book. I teach high school history and assign the Grapes of Wrath to all my AP US History students. I was looking for a book for the students to read to demonstrate how the poor live today.Instead, what I found was a book about Barbara Ehrenreich and her jobs. It was not about the people who hold those jobs. I do not want to know why she refused to hire a maid when she could afford one, I want to know why someone takes a job as a maid and how they live on those wages.It helped me truly appreciate the stark brilliance of Steinbeck and his ability to portray the reality of poor American people. It also demonstrates the distressing inability of the popular liberal media to understand or describe the reality of life for poor Americans.I agree with another reviewer -- read Studs Terkel. I would also would welcome other recommendations for short reading that I could assign to my class.
