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  • MANHATTAN TRANSFER
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    MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban li...

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  • ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN
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    ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    In a novel that closely parallels author John Dos Passos's own ideological struggles during the Spanish Civil War, protagonist Glenn Spotswood, an American, travels to Spain to fight on the Republican side. There, Spotswood joins the Communist Party to help establish a more just society, but his idealism quickly degrades under the stress of party orthodoxy and hypocrisy. ...

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  • THE GREAT DAYS
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    THE GREAT DAYS
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    In this semi-autobiographical novel, an American named Roland Lancaster has a doomed affair with a younger woman, Elsa, in Cuba during World War II. The love story, in its happiest moments, parallels the idyllic life that author John Dos Passos had with his first wife, Katy.   The Great Days plots a key concern of the author's in the 1950s—America's rise to global prominence du...

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  • THE GRAND DESIGN
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    THE GRAND DESIGN
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people.   "War is a time of Caesars," writes Dos Passos as h...

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  • THE BEST TIMES
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    THE BEST TIMES
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald ...

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  • THE BIG MONEY
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    THE BIG MONEY
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    "It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people."— The New York Times Marking the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" ( Time), The Big Money brings us back to America after the Great War, a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock ma...

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  • MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
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  • THE BEST TIMES
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    THE BEST TIMES
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald ...

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  • ORIENT EXPRESS
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    ORIENT EXPRESS
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or character. Dos Passos applies his instincts as a painter to mountain ranges and gri...

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  • NUMBER ONE
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    NUMBER ONE
    JOHN DOS PASSOS
    Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka “Number One,” pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. Number One draws many comparisons to Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Crawford reminds many of Louisiana politician Huey Long, a figure studied i...

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