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William F. Buckley Jr.

Stein and Day, 1984

Up From Liberalism
I'm a college student studying on a liberal college campus who will probably pursue a career in Constitutional law. Reading this book has helped me understand my political philosophy much more clearly. Up From Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr. is a witty, sagacious, and very perceptive book declaring the fresh conservative alternative to liberal establishment politics. It is a must read ...

John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941 (Library of America)

1 review
John Dos Passos

Library of America, 2003

A classic resource of unforgettable literature
Ably edited by Townsend Ludington (Boshamer Professor of English and American Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Dos Passos: Travel Books & Other Writings 1916-1941 is an 880-page anthology of diverse writings by John Dos Passos. In addition to his powerful work depicting on war, tension, and other crucial portraits of the twentieth-century world, Dos Passos: Travel Books & ...

Manhattan Transfer: A Novel

13 reviews
John Dos Passos

Mariner Books, 2003

"I dunno...pretty far."
The prose style presented in Manhattan Transfer is fresh and unorthodox, two characteristics that all great literature must contain. The narrator of the novel is an eavesdropper who chooses his subjects at will. You are able to spend three pages with a subject, then not hear from the subject until scores of pages later, if at all. Manhattan Transfer serves as a history book, but not the standard ...

Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America)

3 reviews
John Dos Passos

Library of America, 2003

Best War Novel
Final Draft Three Soldiers: Best War Novel "How soons it take a feller to git out o'this camp", This quote in John Dos Passos Three Soldiers is typical for the soldiers for the soldiers of that time because, most of the men couldn't wait to charge into battle on the other side of the Atlantic. The authors main goal in the Three Soldiers is to show you what a soldier really goes through. John Dos ...

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America)

22 reviews
John Dos Passos

Library of America, 1996

The real history of America
I read this book first in 1967 while in high school, given to me by a teacher who wanted me to understand the real American History. When he told me an American general marched on World War One veterans in Washington, DC after WW I and killed many who were looking for veterans benefits I knew this book would be special. It delivers history in a most compelling and unique way, unlike any other ...

1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy

8 reviews
John Dos Passos

Mariner Books, 2000

The one thing that enslaves people more than any other to the servitude of war is nationalism
Those words, written by John Dos Passos while serving as a Red Cross Ambulance Driver during the First World War, provide the underlying theme for "1919", Volume II of Dos Passos' "USA Trilogy". Dos Passos is one of the (now) lesser known literary giants of the first half of the 20th-century. At the height of his fame in the 1930s he found himself on the same pedestal as Hemingway, ...

The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy

13 reviews
John Dos Passos

Mariner Books, 2000

A Brilliant, overlooked work of American fiction
When I first came across John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy (42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money) as a teenager I thought they were the most exciting books I'd read to date. I was enthralled by its scope, its style, and its highly politicized substance. Dos Passos' montage-style (that seemed to be some sort of homage to the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein) mixed interwoven story lines of ...

The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos

Gambit Inc., 1973

In the 1960's John Dos Passos began calling his novel contemporary chronicles, and to his lastest piece of fiction he gave the working title The Thirteenth Chronicle. These letters abd duarues naje a chronicle too.

The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson
John Dos Passos

doubleday /Garden City, 1954

Somewhat of a biography of Jefferson. What influenced his life, some of his opinions. I say some because all could not put into one book. This also includes listings of other places where more information may be found.

Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of Mckinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

2 reviews
John dos Passos

Doubleday, 1962

Overshadowed by U.S.A. Trilogy, Mr. Wilson's War is a truly great book
I read this book at the suggestion of my father and I found myself completely immersed in a historical tale of Woodrow Wilson and the war that consumed the world. Dos Passos' writing is spectacular and adept, leaving many indelible images of Wilson and the events at that time in your mind. More than any other, the moment I best remember from this book is the image of Woodrow Wilson, following ...

One Man's Initiation-1917

Optal eBooks, 2008

This is Dos Passos's first novel framed in the context of World War I.

Easter Island: Island of Enigmas

1 review
John Dos Passos

Doubleday, 1995

Great book!
This is an extremely interesting account of Dos Passo's visit to the Island in the mid-1970's. He also delves into a great amount of history surrounding the discovery, settlement, and ultimate downfall of the mysterious civilization that once inhabited the Island. I would definitely recommend reading this book before you travel there, since it provides you with some very interesting background ...

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