The Big Money

by Dos Passos, John Roderigo

• ISBN13: 9780618056835
• ISBN10: 0618056831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-25
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

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.

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

Charley Anderson	1	(7)
Newsreel XLIV Yankee Doodle that melodee	7	(1)
Charley Anderson	8	(7)
Newsreel XLV 'Twarn't for powder and for storebought hair	14	(1)
THE AMERICAN PLAN	15	(23)
Newsreel XLVI these are the men for whom the rabid	20	(1)
The Camera Eye (43) throat tightens when the redstacked steamer	21	(2)
Newsreel XLVII boy seeking future offered	23	(1)
The Camera Eye (44) the unnamed arrival	24	(1)
Charley Anderson	25	(13)
Newsreel XLVIII truly the Steel Corporation	37	(1)
TIN LIZZIE	38	(36)
Newsreel XLIX Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds	46	(1)
Charley Anderson	47	(27)
Newsreel L Don't blame it all on Broadway	73	(1)
THE BITTER DRINK	74	(47)
Newsreel LI The sunshine drifted from our alley	84	(1)
Mary French	85	(15)
The Camera Eye (45) the narrow yellow room teems with talk	99	(1)
Mary French	100	(21)
The Camera Eye (46) walk the streets and walk the streets	118	(2)
Newsreel LII assembled to a service for the dear departed	120	(1)
ART AND ISADORA	121	(29)
Newsreel LIII Bye bye blackbird	128	(1)
Margo Dowling	129	(21)
Newsreel LIV there was nothing significant about the morning's trading	149	(1)
ADAGIO DANCER	150	(71)
Newsreel LV Throngs in Streets	155	(1)
The Camera Eye (47) sirens bloom in the fog over the harbor	156	(1)
Charley Anderson	157	(35)
Newsreel LVI his first move was to board a fast train for Miami	188	(1)
The Camera Eye (48) westbound to Havana Puerto-Mexico Galveston	189	(3)
Margo Dowling	192	(11)
Newsreel LVII the psychic removed all clothing	202	(1)
Margo Dowling	203	(18)
Newsreel LVIII In my dreams it always seems	220	(1)
THE CAMPERS AT KITTY HAWK	221	(120)
Newsreel LIX the stranger first coming to Detroit	227	(1)
Charley Anderson	228	(32)
Newsreel LX Was Celine to blame?	259	(1)
Margo Dowling	260	(14)
Newsreel LXI High high high up in the hills	272	(2)
Charley Anderson	274	(29)
Newsreel LXII Stars Portend Evil	302	(1)
Margo Dowling	303	(38)
Newsreel LXIII but a few minutes later this false land disappeared	340	(1)
ARCHITECT	341	(34)
Newsreel LXIV Weird Fish Drawn from Sargasso Sea	347	(1)
The Camera Eye (49) walking from Plymouth to North Plymouth	348	(3)
Newsreel LXV Storm Ties Up Subway; Floods and Lightning Darken City	351	(1)
Mary French	352	(23)
Newsreel LXVI Holmes Denies Stay	370	(1)
The Camera Eye (50) they have clubbed us off the streets	371	(2)
Newsreel LXVII when things are upset, there's always chaos	373	(2)
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY	375	(45)
Richard Ellsworth Savage	383	(37)
Newsreel LXVIII Wall Street Stunned	416	(3)
The Camera Eye (51) at the head of the valley in the dark of the hills	419	(1)
POWER SUPERPOWER	420	(26)
Mary French	426	(20)
VAG	446