About this title: This novel continues the trilogy that Dos Passos began in 1930 with THE FORTY-SECOND PARALLEL, covering in NINETEEN-NINETEEN primarily the years of the First World War in America.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780451524683ISBN:0451524683
Description: Marsh, Reginald. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight wear, average spine creasing and age-toning, completely free of marks and tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 472 p. Audience: General/trade. Illustrations by Marsh create a more entertaining read. Generally ship same day. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Washington Square
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice 48 year old copy! Tanned pages, edge wear, writing inside front cover, and margin notes. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. USA. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1954
Description: Fair. MMMPB. CLEAN. BOOK IS DETACHED FROM SPINE. LOOSE PAGES. GREAT READING COPY, . Items may or may not have the same cover art as displayed for this item on this site. If you need a specific cover please inquire first. Vinyl is visually graded according to Goldmine. Because of our volume we just don't have time to play test every album, however we would gladly play test any album and it's often a great idea to ask us to do that to avoid disappointment. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780451524683ISBN:0451524683
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 472 p. Audience: General/trade. Paper in good condition. Part of USA trilogy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Binding is tight and square. No names, no marks, no stickers. Text is clean and bright. Light corner wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1969-03-01
ISBN-13:9780451518033ISBN:0451518039
Description: Good. Mild shelf and corner wear; Slight spine skew; Mild wear to spine hinges; Tanning to page edges; Mild corner crease front cover; Mild rubbing\wear to covers and spine; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. Orange cloth covers with silver title on cover and spine; no jacket; covers have minor to medium wear that is heaver at edges and spine is faded; previous owner's name on front and rear end papers; interior pages are clean and unmarked; 12mo; 473 pgs. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, New York
Date Published: 1932
Description: Good. No dust jacket. No D/J. Minor scuff marks to boards plus some edgewear at top. Tasteful book plate on inside of front cover. Pencil notation in corner of opposite page. Text clean, bright & tight. 473 p. Red boards with title in silver on front & spine. Rough cut foreedges. Stated First Edition. Part 2 of the USA Trilogy. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company
Date Published: 1932
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Cloth hardcovers gently rubbed at spine ends and corners, spine dulled. Bookplate, else interior very good.; 8vo. read more
"1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier."
"I am surprised Dos Passos isn't better well-known. Although complete fiction, the picture he paints of the era is very compelling and is another, higher level of "historical fiction".
There are several concurrent short stories of people in the period, during WW1. Great revelation to a modern reader of how these people saw that they were in the "War to End All Wars". In retrospect, I do think WW1 may have had some finalty for that type of war and its causes. For fun, these stories do cross over and it is fascinating to get each person's motivations. Dos Passos gets you into each story so deeply that you root for the main character, forgetting that in the previous story you may have been rooting for this character's rival in the exact same situation.
The book also is sprinkled with strema-of-conscious memeories of Passos himself in teat period as well as chapters which just give series of news clippings from that period. This book is like read an extraordinary piece of painted art.
His intellectual life is interesting, growing from an extreme leftest position to extreme right from the 1920's through the 1960's."
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