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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... morning the bosun let him out and told him fairly kindly to go get cookee to give him some porridge , but to keep off the deck . He said they were going to turn him over to the Aliens Control as soon as they docked in Liverpool . When ...
... morning the bosun let him out and told him fairly kindly to go get cookee to give him some porridge , but to keep off the deck . He said they were going to turn him over to the Aliens Control as soon as they docked in Liverpool . When ...
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... morning they were up early and hurried through their coffee and rolls and rushed out hot and cold with excite- ment to the rue François Premier to report . They were told where to get their uniforms and cautioned to keep away from wine ...
... morning they were up early and hurried through their coffee and rolls and rushed out hot and cold with excite- ment to the rue François Premier to report . They were told where to get their uniforms and cautioned to keep away from wine ...
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... morning when J. W. found he had to bathe out of a basin he made a face and said , " I hope you don't mind roughing it this way , dear little girl . ” They went over across the Rhone to Nimes for lunch , riding through Arles and Avignon ...
... morning when J. W. found he had to bathe out of a basin he made a face and said , " I hope you don't mind roughing it this way , dear little girl . ” They went over across the Rhone to Nimes for lunch , riding through Arles and Avignon ...
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JOE WILLIAMS | 14 |
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE | 78 |
EVELINE HUTCHINS | 115 |
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