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Oct 20, 2017 · Drawing on his experiences while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos produced in the novel Three Soldiers a disillusioned view of the war and the military that established him as an important voice of a new American literary generation.
Dec 29, 2019 · What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 A Depression-era novel about American tumult has—perhaps unsurprisingly—aged quite well. By Matt Hanson
Sep 22, 2022. John Roderigo Dos Passos (b.1896, d.1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks.
The 42nd Parallel introduces grand innovations in the form and content of American literature. The author chronicles the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as the country angsts for attention on the world stage.
John Dos Passos Average rating: 3.85 · 27,478 ratings · 2,254 reviews · 142 distinct works • Similar authors The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., #1)
Oct 28, 2014 · The 100 best novels: No 58 – Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932) | Fiction | The Guardian. John Dos Passos: ‘His response to the great war and communist revolution was to become a ...
John Dos Passos is one of the most overtly political authors in this unit. Involved in many radical political movements, Dos Passos saw the expansion of consumer capitalism in the first decades of the twentieth century as a dangerous threat to the health of the nation.
