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 | | In the post-war period, The Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay represent an important and historical discussion of government organization and republican values. |
 | | Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, social-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life. |
 | | In the 1950s the West Coast spawned a literary movement, the poetry and fiction of the "Beat Generation," a name that referred simultaneously to the rhythm of jazz music, to a sense that post-war society was worn out, and to an interest in new forms of experience through drugs, alcohol, and Eastern mysticism. |
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