
First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s--John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited,...

A novel that depicts the troubles and responses of working people trapped in the Great Depression. It portrays the depression in the Great Plains, and presents a study of the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power.

First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, "Capital City" is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," John Conroy's "The Disinherited," Robert Cantwell's "Land...
