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Summary: Fantastic! One of the great American works of the century!
Review: There is no praise that is too great for this trilogy. It blends creative techniques (although not all of them succeed completely) with compelling storytelling and an acute political sensibility that lifts it far beyond a mere tract. Sartre called Dos Passos the greatest American writer, and with this body of work, at least, it is hard to find fault.
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Summary: The "Great American Novel".
Review: This is absolutely the greatest book I have ever read. It is riveting, educational and brings everything together at it's conclusion. Remarkable!!!!!!!! (Should be included in the "classics.")
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: This is the true American Epic.Dos Passos wrote this trilogy almost as a documentary. It is a history lesson, with newspaper articles, biographical sketches, beautiful train of thought prose poems, and, in the midst of it all, fictional but brutally realistic characters who each experience the times through a unique set of eyes. Since I have read this book it has become one of my favorites, and there are few titles with more meaning to me than _U.S.A_.
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: This is the true American Epic. Dos Passos wrote this trilogy almost as a documentary. It is a history lesson, with newspaper articles, biographical sketches, beautiful train of thought prose poems, and, in the midst of it all, fictional but brutally realistic characters who each experience the times through a unique set of eyes. Since I have read this book it has become one of my favorites, and there are few titles with more meaning to me than _U.S.A_.
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Summary: A hundred miles down the road . . .
Review: Yes, it's unusual for an Amazon review to be prefaced by five stars, but U.S.A. deserves the celestial quintet. In these three books, Dos Passos created the first people's history of the United States, one that drives forward relentlessly, throws its characters all over the United States and brings the limits of the American Dream to public view -- for all to view painfully. Mac, Richard Ellsworth Savage, Ben Compton, Charley Anderson, Joe and Janey Williams -- by the end of "The Big Money," these are people you know and feel for, people you hate to leave. They seem human in way that seems foreign to fiction of the 1930s. Read it yourself. The work is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And if you don't get several sad lumps in your throat from the conclusions of "1919" or "The Big Money" (especially the latter), friend, you haven't lived.
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