both gothrie and steinbeck helps of american.ico sportsnite" says 25% unemployment rate and a decline of production by 50%. >> it is not really the same situation as the country face. i think americans are in a position now to be understanding about the great depression. >> that empathy brings people together. >> when we find ourself in the condition where government betrayed us and business cheated us, and all of a sudden we are victims of all of this. >> he says people try to figure out how to response to the crisis, they turn to the music. >> people asking us for change and people sleeping in the streets. politicians still have not have a way >> since the grapes of wrath was published, some 14 copies have been sold. the board of supervisors banned the book from libraries and schools in 1939. the farmers went so far to recruit one of his workers to burn a copy of leaders found the book show them in poor light. the first edition of hard back s 619 pages and sold for $2. 75. a mint condition of the first edition is now valued at