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Title	:	1919 (The U.S.A. Trilogy #2)
Author	:	John Dos Passos
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	May 25th 2000 by Mariner Books (first published 1932)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Novels. American

1919 (The U.S.A. Trilogy #2)

John Dos Passos

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4 | 2467 Users | 170 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	1919
ISBN:	0618056823 (ISBN13: 9780618056828)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The U.S.A. Trilogy #2
Setting:	United States of America

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I'm not really interested in "reviewing" a classic novel but two things stand out for me: the closing chapter on the selection and internment of the Unknown Soldier, which sums up much of the cold anger of the entire book; and how relevant so much of the book remains to today, nearly 100 years later. Glad I kept this on my list of "assigned college reading I skipped or skimmed but want to finish before I die."

The war dictates its own rules And these rules make a man really smallsaw the German troops goose-stepping through Brussels, saw Poincaré visiting the long doomed galleries of Verdun between ranks of bitter half-mutinous soldiers in blue, saw the gangrened wounds, the cholera, the typhus, the little children with their bellies swollen with famine, the maggoty corpses of the Serbian retreat, drunk Allied officers chasing sick naked girls upstairs in the brothels in Saloniki, soldiers looting

This is one of my dads books, otherwise, I wouldnt have read the sequel to a book I didnt like that much in the first place. The second book was a lot like the first, though I was more interested this time by how modern everything seemed in 1919, particularly with regards to sexual mores. (Assuming Dos Passos got that right, and I suspect he did.)

This is a masterpiece of Americana. Dos Passos shows the ugly underbelly of America during World War I. The war against labor, the war against the huns was a violent debacle that showed America at its worst--all in the name of nationalism and "capitalism." It is shameful to see the horrors of what was done to make America what it is today.

2nd Reading.

Long short stories or short novellas with newspaper headlines, song lyrics, and verbal newsreels in between.

This is the second in the USA trilogy. Anyone thinking of writing the Great American Novel can forget about it; it's already been written. The format of the book is extraordinary, especially for when it was written. It's a multi-threaded narrative, but interspersed with the several story lines are biographical vignettes that are riveting. Then there are the stream-of-consciousness chapters. The whole is like listening to the sounds of a city, with many voices that together make a distinctive