“Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear” (Steinbeck)
Viking
“Vikings at Helgoland, The” (Ibsen)
Virgil
Virgin Islands
Viva Zapata!
“Waiting” (Steinbeck)
Waiting for Lefty (Odets)
“Waltzing Matilda,”
Washington, D.C.
Bonus Marchers in
Capitol Building in
Washington, George
West, George
Westmoreland, William C.
White, E. B.
Whitman, Walt
William the Conqueror, king of England
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Edmund
Wing Chong
Winter of Our Discontent, The (Steinbeck)
“Witches of Salem, The,”
Wolfe, Thomas
“Woody Guthrie” (Steinbeck)
World War
World War
Allied bombing missions in
entertaining the troops in
JS’s service in
WPA
“Writers Take Sides,”
Yatkumi, Takasi
Yellow Peril
Yellowstone Park
Yevtushenko, Galya
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Yorktown, Battle of
Yosemite Park
Zapata, Emiliano
The following selections were previously published, some under different titles:
“Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books” appeared in The Author Looks at Format, edited by Ray Freiman (American Institute of Graphic Arts); “Tom Collins” as a foreword to Bringing in the Sheaves, by Windsor Drake; “. . . like captured fireflies” in CTA (California Teaching Association) Journal; “Duel Without Pistols,” “The Soul and Guts of France,” and “I Go Back to Ireland” in Collier’s; “G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges” and “Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot” in The Courier-Journal (Louisville); “A Primer on the ’30s” and “The Trial of Arthur Miller” in Esquire; “I Am a Revolutionary,” “On Fishing,” “The Joan in All of Us,” and “One American in Paris” (fourth and thirteenth pieces) in Le Figaro; “A Model T Named ‘It’” in Ford Times; “Woody Guthrie” as a foreword to Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, compiled by Alan Lomax (Oaks Publications); “Henry Fonda” and “Positano” in Harper’s Bazaar; “Always Something to Do in Salinas,” “My War with the Ospreys,” and “Conversation at Sag Harbor” in Holiday; “Starvation Under the Orange Trees” in Monterey Trader; “Dubious Battle in California” in The Nation; “Making of a New Yorker” in The New York Times Magazine; “Dear Adlai,” “The Ghost of Anthony Daly,” “Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear,” “Action in the Delta,” “Terrorism,” “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” and “An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko” in Newsday; “Robert Capa” in Photography; “Circus” in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Program; “The Golden Handcuff” in San Francisco Examiner; “The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters’ Camps” in San Francisco News; “Atque Vale,” “Random Thoughts on Random Dogs” and “Critics—from a Writer’s Viewpoint” in The Saturday Review; “Adlai Stevenson” as a foreword to Speeches of Adlai Stevenson, edited by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin (Random House); “Then My Arm Glassed Up” in Sports Illustrated; “The Play-Novelette” in Stage; “Rationale” in Steinbeck and His Critics, edited by Ernest W. Tedlock and C. V. Wicker (University of New Mexico Press); “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” in Story; “My Short Novels” in Wings; and a selection from Writers Take Sides (League of American Writers).
1 Source notes in the editors’ introductions refer to works listed in “Works Cited”; unpublished letters, primarily the Harry Guggenheim/John Steinbeck letters, are cited by date.
2 The photographs from the original 1966 edition of America and Americans are not included.