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"These dispatches are really the last work that Steinbeck published, and they are intensely interesting pieces of writing. Their vividness alone makes them worth reading. They remind us once again that Steinbeck's gift was essentially journalistic."

- Jay Parini, Middlebury College, author of John Steinbeck: A Biography

"Through John Steinbeck is best known for chronicling the woes of the Great Depression, his raw, journalistic accounts of later human tragedies are written with the same poignancy as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. In Steinbeck in Vietnam, we are offered glimpses of the author's last works."

- Huffington Post

"Steinbeck's writing is vividly descriptive, evoking place and circumstance...(His) ability to capture the day-to-day conduct of the war and its destructive force is sometimes shockingly immediate."

- Publishers Weekly

"A first-rate addition to the Steinbeck publication record, and one that has been too long coming. Kudos to Professor Barden for his perceptive, nuanced, and necessary work."

- Robert DeMott, Ohio University, author of Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art

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