1919

by Dos Passos, John Roderigo

• ISBN13: 9780618056828
• ISBN10: 0618056823
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-25
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, 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 modern life 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, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Newsreel XX Oh the infantree the infantree	1	(1)
Joe Williams	2	(10)
The Camera Eye (28) when the telegram came that she was dying	6	(6)
Playboy	8	(4)
Joe Williams	12	(43)
Newsreel XXI Goodby Broadway; Hello France	53	(1)
The Camera Eye (29) the raindrops fall one by one out of the horsechestnut tree	54	(1)
Richard Ellsworth Savage	55	(28)
Newsreel XXII Coming Year Promises Rebirth of Railroads	77	(1)
The Camera Eye (30) remembering the grey crooked fingers	78	(4)
Randolph Bourne	79	(3)
Newsreel XXIII If you dont like your Uncle Sammy	82	(1)
Eveline Hutchins	83	(16)
The Camera Eye (31) a mattress covered with something from Vantine's	98	(1)
Eveline Hutchins	99	(18)
Newsreel XXIV it is difficult to realize the colossal scale	108	(1)
The Camera Eye (32) a quatorze heures precisement	109	(6)
The Happy Warrior	110	(5)
The Camera Eye (33) 11,000 registered harlots	115	(2)
Joe Williams	117	(28)
The Camera Eye (34) his voice was three thousand miles away	135	(2)
Newsreel XXV General Pershing's forces today occupied	137	(7)
A Hoosier Quixote	138	(6)
Newsreel XXVI Europe on Knife Edge	144	(1)
Richard Ellsworth Savage	145	(25)
Newsreel XXVII Her Wounded Hero of War a Fraud	168	(2)
The Camera Eye (35) there were always two cats	170	(1)
Eveline Hutchins	170	(12)
Newsreel XXVIII Oh the eagles they fly high	181	(1)
Joe Williams	182	(21)
Newsreel XXIX the arrival of the news	189	(1)
The Camera Eye (36) when we emptied the rosies	190	(9)
Meester Veelson	191	(8)
Newsreel XXX Monster Guns Removed?	199	(1)
The Camera Eye (37) alphabetically according to rank	200	(3)
Newsreel XXXI washing and dressing hastily	203	(1)
Daughter	203	(30)
Newsreel XXXII Golden Voice of Caruso Swells in Victory Song to Crowds on Streets	228	(1)
The Camera Eye (38) sealed signed and delivered	229	(2)
Newsreel XXXIII Can't Recall Killing Sister	231	(2)
Eveline Hutchins	233	(43)
Newsreel XXXIV Whole World Is Short of Platinum	266	(6)
The House of Morgan	267	(5)
Newsreel XXXV the Grand Prix de la Victoire	272	(1)
The Camera Eye (39) daylight enlarges out of	273	(2)
Newsreel XXXVI To the Glory of France Eternal	275	(1)
Richard Ellsworth Savage	276	(46)
Newsreel XXXVII Soviet Guards Displaced	317	(2)
The Camera Eye (40) I walked all over town	319	(2)
Newsreel XXXVIII C'est la lutte finale	321	(1)
Daughter	322	(17)
Newsreel XXXIX spectacle of ruined villages and tortured earth	334	(1)
The Camera Eye (41) arent you coming to the anarchist picnic	335	(2)
Newsreel XL Criminal in Pyjamas Saws Bars	337	(2)
Joe Hill	338	(1)
Ben Compton	339	(31)
Newsreel XLI in British Colonial Office quarters	362	(1)
The Camera Eye (42) four hours we casuals pile up scrapiron	363	(2)
Newsreel XLII it was a gala day for Seattle	365	(5)
Paul Bunyan	366	(4)
Richard Ellsworth Savage	370	(5)
Newsreel XLIII the placards borne by the radicals	374	(1)
The Body of an American	375