Nineteen Nineteen

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Washington 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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JOE WILLIAMS
14
RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE
78
EVELINE HUTCHINS
115
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