Review
"The single greatest novel any of us have written, yes, in this country in the last one hundred years." -- Norman Mailer


Book Description
THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers.


From the Publisher
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About the Author
John Dos Passos (1896-1970), a member of the Lost Generation, was the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including THREE SOLDIERS and MANHATTAN TRANSFER.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers.

FROM THE CRITICS

Edward T. Wheeler - Commonweal

Dos Passos's sense of form and artistic sureness which tips its hat to Joyce, Pound, and Eliot, gives much satisfaction. There is God's plenty here, and in that creative life a type of blueprint for the soul.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Hemingway, Faulkner, Dreiser, and Henry James were the great American writers of [the twentieth] century, but U.S.A. may be the single greatest novel any of us have written in this country in these last one hundred years. — Norman Mailer