Steinbeck’s support for the Vietnam War had infuriated the literary establishment and even though he had won the Nobel Prize and his acceptance speech became one of the most famous of its kind, he continued to be dismissed as an outdated fossil.
I had not heard about the Gosssteinbeck's in Israel or Mount Hope, but was vaguely aware about the US mission to the Ottoman Empire to revenge the Nablus massacre.
The story of John Steinbeck's visit to Israel in the 1960's is retold here by Mr. Greenfield, and posted in full.
Please read, it is an excellent history lesson.
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Great article.