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

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“A Depression-era novel about American tumult has—perhaps unsurprisingly—aged quite well.”—The New Yorker

In 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his “vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America” (Forum).

Employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos Passos captures the many textures, flavors, and background noises of the era with a cinematic touch and unparalleled nerve.1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos’s characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, and a Jewish radical, and we get glimpses of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.

Named one of the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century, “U.S.A. is a masterpiece” (Tim O’Brien) and 1919 is an unforgettable chapter in the saga.

“It’s the kind of book a reader never forgets.”—Chicago Daily Tribune
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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.

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Francis O Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Americans in Paris
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2022
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Jon Dos Passos’s “1919 (Voume 2 of the American Trilogy)” details the lives of some ordinary and some extraordinary American men and women, both real and fictional, in the years of the first world war—some of which were passed in Paris. It captures the sentiments of the times as they were lived, particularly the undercurrents of anti-war and anti-capitalist thinking along with the fears that this provoked. The characters were the unsung progenitors of the greatest generation, without the photoshopping. It ends with a gripping tribute to the unknown soldier of this war and a cynical take on its beneficiaries
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Con Harrigan Emmons
4.0 out of 5 stars USA! USA! USA!
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019
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No doubt Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner deserve their renown but, perhaps, our daunting even deadly times demand we read their compatriot John Dos Passos. The one who gets the least attention of the four now deserves the most. The timing is right for USA, a three-part novel that’s relevant to our tweets, to our headlines. From Mac in THE 42nd PARALLEL crossing the El Paso-Juarez bridge, to “The Body of an American” in 1919 interred at Arlington National Cemetery, to labor advocate Mary French in THE BIG MONEY organizing yet another protest after Eddy Spellman is shot dead. The Dos Passos narrative method cross breeds novelist and chronicler to enhance both fiction and nonfiction, a hybridization worthy of Luther Burbank.

While the concerns of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner characters are largely private, those of Dos Passos characters are often public: social, political, economical, ethical, moral. At the same time his canvas is so broad it includes the opposition. There may be revolution in the air but there’s counter-revolution in the shadows and it’s a doozy. This novel tries to encompass all of society within the segregated realities that word meant in 1930’s America. No surprise Dos Passos himself begins as a socialist and ends as a Goldwater republican. That’s the American way. Or one of them anyway. As the Europeans so kindly point out: America has two political parties, both being conservative.

Your smart phone will help elucidate many of the Newsreels and help you bone up on the Dos Passos biography for The Camera Eyes. Both will remain a challenge for you, as they are meant to be. James Joyce did the same and, for Dos Passos, served as a modern model as Defoe and Thackeray served as his traditional models.

Does the system, whatever system it may be, and that system’s big interests, control our lives? Hell, if they did back then it’s a cinch they do now. What controls you? Maybe that phone in your hand. Maybe even this very website. Saul Bellow: “It’s true enough that a simple belief in progress goes with a deformed conception of human nature.”
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5.0 out of 5 stars Slice of Life
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2017
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I disliked the characters in this book, almost all of them. I was struck by how little of the war was a part of the book, even when the characters were in Europe. This is my memory of Vietnam and Iraq. But I thought the Great War was a patriotic vision, as in the movies. Of course, this is the reality. Since I did not know much about this era, I was surprised at how times haven't much changed. Our current political situation is so close to the charged and violent atmosphere in 1919. We don't learn. But books like this force us to accept reality.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Revisited with hindsight
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2021
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I first read the U.S.A. Trilogy in the early 1960's. Reading them today of course is like reading them for the first time. The books have aged better than I have. It's as if I have renewed acquaintance with an old friend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Sequel As Great As The First One
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2019
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1919 chronicles America from coast to coast beforeduringandafter World War One. (Yes, John Dos Passos runs his words together sometimes.) And he tracks the challenges for various Americans as they seek work, or party all night. Not just stateside but around Europe during the war. The tale of labor protesters gunned down in Everett and Centralia, Washington, is especially grim but accurate.
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3.0 out of 5 stars I am not a fan of the camera eye. ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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I am not a fan of the camera eye. In addition, longsentenceswithallwordsattacheddonotworkwellforme. Well written prose and interesting narrative from an historical standpoint. I took a two-book pause between its predecessor 42nd Parallel and 1919. I may take a two-decade pause until I open The Big Money, well well after I've read Ragtime, Manhattan Transfer and Berlin AlexanderPlatz.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2021
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4.0 out of 5 stars ... back to the period when the USA entered the great European War
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2016
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Dos Passos brings you back to the period when the USA entered the great European War, that is World War One, the war to end all wars. Full of day to day details about the politics, labor struggles, and headlines of the times. It was a fast read for me, and I am a slow reader. It smacks you in the face with the reality of the "Good Old Days." It bore an eerie resemblance to my owns experiences as a college student during the Viet Nam War. If you want to know how the USA got into the state it is now in, read the entire Dos Passes trilogy, USA, and you will see it has always been this way.
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fernando azevedo de arruda sampaio
5.0 out of 5 stars Segue a saga
Reviewed in Brazil on August 18, 2017
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Segunda parte da trilogia USA, mantém o alto nível da primeira, tecendo várias trajetórias pessoais entrelaçadas pelas vagas da História: a primeira Grande Guerra, a Revolução Russa e seus ecos sobre gente simples e gente sofisticada dos EUA.
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Gracie
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2015
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Dos Passos is not as well remembered as some of his contemporaries, like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, but this book and the other two in the trilogy are proof that he should be. The USA trilogy makes you feel as though you are there with the cast of characters, watching moments of their lives unfold, dreaming their dreams of a better, fairer future, a part of the birth of the twentieth century.

It takes time to get used to the multiple styles he uses to bring the period and the people to life, but once you do, once you take time to read a little more slowly, you feel his rhythm and your mind reacts to it in the way your body reacts to music. You're swept along.

I cannot recommend this trilogy highly enough. Together I think they are the great American novel, part dream, part nightmare, all so vital and compelling. These books enriched my life and I'm pretty sure they've changed it for the better. I hope they do the same for you too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can't believe more people don't buy Dos Passos
Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2011
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I just finished the second book of the USA trilogy and want to stand outside the big box bookstores and rave about them to everyone reading the second rate hacks that pass for authors these days.

Dos Passos brings history to life in a beautifully woven series of stories interconnected that reads like a diary entry, news ticker and brilliant novel rolled into one.

I started book 3 of the series and anticipate it will take a mere day to read it's so riveting.
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J. Padilla D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Segunda parte de la trilogía USA, imprescindible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2021
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El segundo libro de la trilogía USA, 1919 debe leerse después de Paralelo 42 y a continuación se debe leer El Gran Dinero. La trilogía constituye la primera gran novela social, y es lectura imprescindible para quien se interese en la literatura norteamericana del siglo veinte. Las traducciones disponibles en Amazon son excelentes.
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CWeis
5.0 out of 5 stars The raise of a superpower
Reviewed in Brazil on April 4, 2016
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Everything has probably been said about Dos Passos and the USA trilogy. All I can add is "I liked very much reading it!"
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