Today is the 70th anniversary of the publication of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. As this article states (backed up by another article that we posted here recently), the author had some prescient words for our own generation: 

"If I wanted to destroy a nation," he wrote in 1966, "I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick."

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