“U.S.A. is the slice of a continent,” John Dos Passos wrote, in his novel “The 42nd Parallel,” from 1930.“U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set ...

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

In the preface to a 1985 article on John Dos Passos, the editors of the Wilson Quarterly struggled to find the right label for his magnum opus, “U.S.A.” While Dos Passos might not have written ...

John Dos Passos became a figure for national discussion when his Three Soldiers appeared two years ago. Its bitter, naturalistic tone was criticized by many as ” disloyal.” ...

Legendary novelist John Dos Passos tells the story of economist Thorstein Veblen, the outspoken Progressive Era critic of capitalism who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” This ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "While we live," Portuguese-American writer John Dos Passos once wrote, "we must make the torch burn ever brighter until it flares out in the socket ...