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Now The Library of America presents an exclusive one-volume edition of this enduring masterwork by John Dos Passos, including for the first time detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events that serve as a backdrop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the novels that make up the trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe 42nd Parallel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1919\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Big Money\u003c\/i\u003e--Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e among the most compulsively readable of modern classics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of twentieth-century life: Newsreels with blaring headlines; autobiographical Camera Eye sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; biographies evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume contains newly researched chronologies of Dos Passos's life and of world events cited in \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e, notes, and an essay on textual selection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613283164433,"sku":"GOR004045064","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49758558290193,"sku":"CIN1883011140A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49758598496529,"sku":"CIN1883011140G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52414724407569,"sku":"CIN1883011140VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53381087822097,"sku":"GOR007351940","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1883011140.jpg?v=1751413241"},{"product_id":"john-dos-passos-novels-1920-1925-loa-142-book-john-dos-passos-9781931082396","title":"John Dos Passos: Novels 1920-1925 (LOA #142)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten in the decade before the publication of his famous \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, the three early novels collected in this Library of America volume record the emergence of John Dos Passos as a bold and accomplished chronicler of the upheavals of the early 20th century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dos Passos drew upon his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver serving near Verdun in writing \u003ci\u003eOne Man's Initiation: 1917\u003c\/i\u003e (1920), in which an idealistic young American learns of the fear, uncertainty, and camaraderie of war through his encounters with French soldiers and civilians. The unexpurgated text presented in this edition restores passages censored by the novel's original publisher.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn Three Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e (1921) Dos Passos engaged in a deeper exploration of World War I and its psychological impact upon an increasingly fractured civilization. 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