Adventures of a Young Man | Social Concerns
Although some critics argue that John Dos Passos's second trilogy, District of Columbia (Adventures of a Young Man, 1939; Number One, 1943; and The Grand Design, 1949) is not as artistically powerful as his first trilogy, U.S.A., each of the novels creates a distinctive and memorable chronicle of the American effort to put liberalism into practice, and its subsequent disillusionment, during the Depression and World War II. Each moreover offers a variation on Dos Passos's increasing criticism of the efforts of both liberal and Communist movements to reshape the...
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