U.S.A. - 3: The Big Money

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With U.S.A. John Dos Passos is said to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating their "own little corners", said Edmund Wilson, Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted among the best novels of the century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is being talked about, studied, and read again, not just by students of modernism but by readers of all ages both here and abroad. Here is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page.A "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage), The Big Money returns from the war to a nation on the upswing. The stock market surges, Lindbergh takes his solo flight, Henry Ford makes automobiles. It is an America speeding toward the crash of 1929.