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Interesting article about this trilogy: //www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/w...
The racist and sexist language is shocking in this day and age. Was Dos Passos using it casually as the standard of the time? Or was he trying to show that the WASP men who were protesting/unionizing for workers's rights were ambivalent about including non-white, Italian, and Jewish immigrants? Was he oblivious or commenting on the sorry state of women at the time?
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The racist and sexist language is shocking in this day and age. Was Dos Passos using it casually as the standard of the time? Or was he trying to show that the WASP men who were protesting/unionizing for workers's rights were ambivalent about including non-white, Italian, and Jewish immigrants? Was he oblivious or commenting on the sorry state of women at the time?
One reviewer compared this trilogy unfavorably with ...more
A bit more soap-opera-like than the first book in the trilogy. But still, I really enjoy Do Passos' style. Her right clear, easy-to-digest prose. While providing a broad cross-section of Americans that highlight the dynamic interior tensions that drove America a century ago.
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May 17, 2017
Janet
marked it as to-read
