U.S.A

About “U.S.A”

The U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos consists of three novels—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—that present a collective portrait of America from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression. The narrative interweaves the careers of multiple characters with historical events and uses experimental devices such as "Newsreels," "Camera Eye" sections, and "biographies" of emblematic figures to capture the textures of 20th-century life.