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出版社周刊评论
This deft, often spellbinding true story of the westward migration and upward mobility of an American farming family follows the plucky Tathums as they stagger across the 1930s American landscape from one hardscrabble hamlet to the next until reaching ``Californy.'' In Fresno, they clamber up the social ladder--picking grapes, selling potatoes and furniture--managing to rise surprisingly high. Washington Post reporter Morgan ( Merchants of Grain ) skillfully evokes the post-Civil War South, the prairie, Oklahoma, pentecostal churches and sleepy, still-developing California, showing the Tathums getting rich and supporting ultra-conservative candidates and causes. His sympathetic portrait of members of the religious right compels respect for their hard work and values. But the book's second half never achieves the mythic resonance of the opening chapters, with their stirring depiction of a brave family riding a truck towards the unknown. Photos. BOMC and QPB alternates. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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An account of the Okie migration to and love affair with California, from Washington Post reporter Morgan (Merchants of Grain, 1979). One summer when he was in college, Morgan retraced the route of John Steinbeck's Joad family, from Oklahoma to the Promised Land of California. The story of this great inland migration continued to fascinate him, and in the 1980's he researched a quintessential Okie family, the Tathams, as a kind of follow-up to The Grapes of Wrath. The Tathams were from eastern Oklahoma--Joad country--and, in fact, Morgan interviewed people who were long ago interviewed by Steinbeck. The Tathams have some outlaws in their ancestry, some bootleggers, but are descended mostly from hardscrabble pioneers who came over the Ozark plateau from Appalachia and made a living farming, working in the mines, and following various harvests north. Their no-nonsense, insular Pentecostalism held them together, and would carry them through the vicissitudes of California, too. Morgan follows them west to the migrant camps but also to modern California, where, for the most part, they have prospered in big farming, the defense industry, real estate, and even professional football. Not exactly a minority group, the Okies were and often remain a distinctive community, and retain strong ties to Oklahoma and to their faith, tested nowadays with issues like school prayer and abortion. A history of one family and a rich look at how we came to be what we are. If nothing else, Morgan will send you back to Steinbeck--which is a tribute to both writers. (Eight pages of judiciously selected photos.)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
/*STARRED REVIEW*/ As a young man, Dan Morgan was so struck by Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, he spent the summer of 1955 on the road sampling Okie life. Even after more than two decades of work as a journalist and author (Merchants of Grain), Morgan couldn't get the image of Depression-era, California-bound migrants out of his mind, so he embarked on a full-blown history of the Okie phenomenon by focusing on one particular, and remarkable, family, the Tathams. Oca and Ruby Tatham loaded 16 family members and adventurers onto a flatbed truck in 1934 and left dirt-poor Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, for crop-rich Southern California. While short on book learning, they were long on "resourceful pragmatism," physical strength, a flair for improvisation, and a belief in miracles. Members of the energetic and demonstrative Pentecostal church, the Tathams maintained a relationship with God that was personal and direct. Oca soon left the muscle-cramping work of orchards and fields for the challenge of trade, gradually parlaying potatoes and second-hand stoves into grocery stores and real estate. As Morgan follows the paths of three generations of Tathams, he examines Okie culture, the evolution of the Pentecostal church and California's economic growth, and the once tight-knit Okie community's slow dissolution. By the 1980s, Tathams are driving Mercedes but also suffering the traumas and muddles of modern life. Morgan has cast light on a fascinating aspect of America's history and character as exemplified by faith, ingenuity, and hard work. (Reviewed Aug. 1992)0394574532Donna Seaman
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Morgan ( Merchants of Grain , Viking, 1979), a journalist with the Washington Post , admits to a lifelong fascination with John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . In 1984, he set out to discover the people and countryside immortalized in Steinbeck's novel of Depression-era America. He discovered the Tathams and the Tacketts, two of the hundreds of families who, like the fictional Joads, joined the great ``Okie'' migration westward in the 1930s. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, Morgan chronicles the life stories of Oca Tatham and his descendants, who in less than half a century went from migrant fruit picking to middle-class prosperity in the promised land of California. The author tends to be wordy and the style tedious; but in the end both general readers and scholars in oral history and family studies will profit from this book. BOMC alternate.-- Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Kentucky Historical Soc., Frankfort (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.