The big money

John Dos Passos

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 25, 2000 - Fiction - 448 pages

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.

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Review: The Big Money (The USA Trilogy #3)

User Review  - Miriam - Goodreads

This trilogy really grew on me. The farther I got into it, the more I appreciated the dramatic scope of the work and its interpretive potential. 42nd Parallel: The US coming into its own, using ...

Review: The Big Money (The USA Trilogy #3)

User Review  - Tom - Goodreads

This past weekend, I finally finished The Big Money, the final book in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy which began with The 42nd Parallel and 1919. I started reading the series because it kept showing up ...

Contents

• CHARLEY ANDERSON: 1
• Yankee Doodle that melodee: 7
• Twarnt for powder and for storebought hair: 14
• these are the men for whom the rabid: 20
• i truly the Steel Corporation: 37
• Jack o Diamonds Jack o Diamonds: 46
• Dont blame it all on Broadway: 73
• The sunshine drifted from our alley: 84
• The Camera Eye 45 the narrow yellow room teems with talk: 99
• The Camera Eye 46 walk the streets and walk the streets: 118
• assembled to a service for the dear departed: 120
• NEWSREEL LIU Bye bye blackbird: 128
• there was nothing significant about: 149
• THRONGS IN STREETS: 155
• his first move was to board a fast train: 188
• NEWSREEL Lvn the psychic removed all clothing: 202
• i In my dreams it always seems: 220
• the stranger first coming to Detroit: 227
• Was Celine to blame?: 259
• High high high up in the hills: 272
• STARS PORTEND EVIL: 302
• NEWSREEL Lxiu but a few minutes later this false land: 340
• WEIRD FISH DRAWN FROM SARGASSO SEA: 347
• HOLMES DENIES STAY: 370
• RICHARD ELLSWORTH SAVAGE: 383
• WALL STREET STUNNED: 416
• MARY FRENCH: 426

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The big money; Volume 3 of Dos Passos, John; Mariner books; Volume 3 of U. S. A. Trilogy Series, John DosPassos John DosPassos; U.S.A, John Dos Passos; USA Trilogy Volume 3; Part 3 of USA, John Roderig Dos Passos
• Author: John Dos Passos
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
• ISBN: 0618056831, 9780618056835
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary