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What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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The Grapes of Wrath

Walter Mosley: The Grapes of Wrath remains a landmark of American literature. He says if Steinbeck had returned to his character 30 or 40 years later, he'd have been very different. Mosley: Ma Joad might have ended up as the little old lady from Pasadena. In 1936, Roosevelt would hit 67% of the popular vote in California. What's driving that? Well, the general depression, you have this vast migration.

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