Dos Passos and the U. S. A.

The article focuses on the book "U.S.A." by the author Dos Passo. As the book goes on, it develops, with the precision of a vast and masterly photograph, into a picture of a business world in its final ripeness, ready to fall into decay. Though Dos Passos does not call himself a Marxist--and would seem in fact not to be one--his point of view is unmistakably radical. The class struggle is present as a minor theme; the major theme is the vitiation and degradation of character in such a civilization.