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New section: "Effect on policy".

Dear fellow editors,
I am leaving this note, out of courtesy to other editors interested in the present article, after adding the subject section today, and also after fixing quite a few typos over the last two days. Essentially, the new section quotes two summary paragraphs from Wollenberg's 17 pages (xvii) introduction to the 1988 edition. The purpose of the new section is to close the article with a conclusion on the aftermath of the publication of both The Harvest Gypsies and The Grapes of Wrath, in their effect on U.S. policy.
It seemed important to add such a conclusion but if anyone disagrees, then please feel free to revert. I would also like to apologize for checking the 'minor edit' box when I added the new section, which was unintentional and automatic, after applying a series of small changes to fix typos and other, small editorial improvements.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^(guestbook) 10:09, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I only just now realized—after browsing deeper into its 'View History'—that this article was created only a month ago (to the day!) and, possibly, as part of a class project.

Two days ago, I mentioned the book to a friend and sent him the url of the present article in an e-mail; it's then that I noticed the need for book titles to be italicized. So, once I had started applying those few changes, I proceeded with reading the whole article and then got carried away with fixing typos!

I initially assumed that the article had been created a long time ago—only because I've had a copy of The Harvest Gypsies in my book collection for many years—and I thought that it was very good, despite those glitches that I have now fixed.

In any case, I hope that my edits will be seen as improvements and that the present article will be retained in the Wiki beyond the conclusion of the class project; I'll obviously be glad to assist some more, if/when appropriate.

With kind regards;

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^(guestbook) 11:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]