Rare John Steinbeck column probes strength of US democracy - New Delhi Times - India Only International Newspaper
Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck — a resident of Paris at the time — often found himself asked about the headlines from his native country. The question he kept hearing: “What about McCarthyism?” The future Nobel Laureate wrote that…