The novel "The Winter of Our Anxiety" - perhaps the saddest of Steinbeck's works - openly outraged critics who did not accept the paradoxical story of the moral fall of a deeply honest, conscientious intellectual, who continues to remain a good person, no matter what deals with his conscience he makes and how much no matter what harm he causes to his loved ones. However, years passed, and it became clear: “The Winter of Our Trouble” is perhaps the best of all that Steinbeck wrote. On the contrary, the book of travel essays “Journeys with Charlie in Search of America” caused a real explosion of enthusiasm in the press and became one of the main bestsellers 1962. Where is it, that true America, which the writer once loved so much and which he is so desperately looking for now, winding hundreds and thousands of miles on the speedometer of a trailer with the telling name “Rocinante”, in the company of his beloved dog Charlie?