Has America “Gone Soft”?

Pajamas Media ^ | 30 Sep 2011 | Roger Kimball

[oh8eleven]

If you are actually re-reading that tripe, I hope you are aware that it is fiction.
Steinbeck? Tripe? LOL. Yeah, the world is wrong and you're right. LOL. You probably don't like the Beatles either.
You say it's fiction, but my understanding is that he did the trip, but made up some (many?) of the characters he met on the road.
Fifty years later - WTF cares? I like his style.
Two other books I like - "The Forgotten Soldier" and "As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me" have also been questioned regarding their veracity. I couldn't care less.

[ngat]

Oops. Sorry. It’s never good to burst the bubble a true hero-worshipper lives in.

P.S. In your opinion, what other authors who made their living as fiction writers, over the span of their lives never wrote a bad book?

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "Here you got The King of the Handout's POTUS endlessly portraying American’s as victims and proposing endless waves of handouts like keeping Americans on unemployment comp for years, now sounding like one of my Mises posts or like demonized Sharon Angle. Is he schizophrenic?"

Don't think so. On the contrary he does his best to live up to all his socialist's master's expectations.