Nineteen NineteenWashington Square Press, 1961 - 511 pages The second volume of U.S.A. refines the approach of the first. As in Three Soldiers and One Man's Initiation - 1917, Dos Passos reveals the damage done by World War I. Nineteen Nineteen, however, focuses on the fear and social unrest on the home front. Across America, Dos Passos is troubled by how new institutions and movements -- such as industrialization, imperialism, and materialism -- stifle human freedom. He hopes for societal advancement through means consistent with the country's democratic roots as he perceives them. Nineteen Nineteen uses a fresh, multimedia style that mixes newsreels, song lyrics, biographies of major figures, semi-autobiographical prose poems, and standard narrative. Pithy, miniature biographies of John Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, J.P. Morgan, and the Unknown Soldier are featured. |
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... didn't matter so much anyway . She used to ask him about his folks and why he didn't go up to Washington to see them , especially as his dad was ill . He said the old man could choke for all he cared , he hated him , that was about the ...
... didn't matter so much anyway . She used to ask him about his folks and why he didn't go up to Washington to see them , especially as his dad was ill . He said the old man could choke for all he cared , he hated him , that was about the ...
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... didn't know that he and Mother were eating her bread and sleeping under her roof ; they paid board , didn't they ? even if they didn't pay as much as Major and Mrs. Glen or Doctor Kern did , and they certainly did enough work to pay for ...
... didn't know that he and Mother were eating her bread and sleeping under her roof ; they paid board , didn't they ? even if they didn't pay as much as Major and Mrs. Glen or Doctor Kern did , and they certainly did enough work to pay for ...
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... didn't understand her and she thought he was unpatriotic to be interfering with her war work and sometimes they'd make up and he'd feel crazy in love with her and she'd make her- self little and cute in his arms and give him little tiny ...
... didn't understand her and she thought he was unpatriotic to be interfering with her war work and sometimes they'd make up and he'd feel crazy in love with her and she'd make her- self little and cute in his arms and give him little tiny ...
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JOE WILLIAMS | 14 |
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE | 78 |
EVELINE HUTCHINS | 115 |
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