The FBI Files on John Steinbeck

When John Steinbeck Published The Grapes Of WrathIn 1939- - It Generated A Whirlwind Of Controversy . Some - Including J.Edgar Hoover And His Fbi - -Believed Steinbeck Was A Communist. The Fbi Files Many Meaningless Cost Steinbeck A Commission As An Officer In The Army During World War Two. By The 1940S John Steinbeck Believed The Fbi Was Following Him -But He Could Not Prove It -During His Lifetime.. Fbi Documents De-Classified After Steinbeck'S Death Proved Steinbeck Right-The Fbi Had Been Following Him For Aears- -Without Any Real Cause. J.Edgar Hoover'S Denials Of An Investigation Of Steinbeck Were At The Very Least Disingenuous At Worst An Outright Lie. This Book Contains Many Pages Of Actual Fbi Documents.