America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction Book

	Introduction
I	Places of the Heart	1
	Always Something to Do in Salinas	4
	The Golden Handcuff	13
	A Primer on the '30s	17
	Making of a New Yorker	32
	My War with the Ospreys	41
	Conversation at Sag Harbor	50
II	Engaged Artist	65
	Dubious Battle in California	71
	The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters' Camps	78
	Starvation Under the Orange Trees	83
	From Writers Take Sides	88
	I Am a Revolutionary	89
	Duel Without Pistols	91
	The Trial of Arthur Miller	101
	Atque Vale	105
	Dear Adlai	108
	G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges	110
	L'Envoi	112
III	Occasional Pieces	117
	Then My Arm Glassed Up	125
	On Fishing	132
	Circus	136
	Random Thoughts on Random Dogs	139
	... like captured fireflies	142
	The Joan in All of Us	144
	A Model T Named "It"	147
IV	On Writing	151
	The Play-Novelette	155
	My Short Novels	158
	Rationale	161
	Critics-from a Writer's Viewpoint	163
	Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books	167
	Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech	172
V	Friends	175
	From About Ed Ricketts	179
	Ernie Pyle	213
	Tom Collins	215
	Robert Capa	217
	Adlai Stevenson	219
	Henry Fonda	223
	Woody Guthrie	225
VI	Journalist Abroad	227
	The Soul and Guts of France	233
	One American in Paris (fourth piece)	246
	One American in Paris (thirteenth piece)	248
	Positano	251
	Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot	259
	I Go Back to Ireland	262
	The Ghost of Anthony Daly	270
VII	War Correspondent	275
	Troopship	282
	Waiting	285
	Stories of the Blitz	288
	Lilli Marlene	291
	Bob Hope	293
	Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear	296
	Action in the Delta	299
	Terrorism	304
	Puff, the Magic Dragon	307
	An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko	311
VIII	America and Americans	313
	Foreword	317
	E Pluribus Unum	319
	Paradox and Dream	330
	Government of the People	339
	Created Equal	346
	Genus Americanus	354
	The Pursuit of Happiness	369
	Americans and the Land	377
	Americans and the World	383
	Americans and the Future	392
	Afterword	403
	Works Cited	405
	Selected Bibliography of Steinbeck's Nonfiction	407
	Index	417