jared@mathstodon.xyz reviewed Midcentury. by John Dos Passos
Review of 'Midcentury.' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
Dos Passos writes bitterly in this later book, compared to the frentic, sometimes irrationally exuberant tone in the U.S.A. Trilogy. From the start -- with the scathing portrayal of MacArthur as a "brass hat" and "the unready" whose popularity seems based on a realization in his early career that he had "a bad press" that he needed to combat with PRO -- reads like a an indictment of America that failed to achieve both the capitalist and the socialist utopia.
I should read more closely to understand Dos Passos' point of view better.
Dos Passos writes bitterly in this later book, compared to the frentic, sometimes irrationally exuberant tone in the U.S.A. Trilogy. From the start -- with the scathing portrayal of MacArthur as a "brass hat" and "the unready" whose popularity seems based on a realization in his early career that he had "a bad press" that he needed to combat with PRO -- reads like a an indictment of America that failed to achieve both the capitalist and the socialist utopia.
I should read more closely to understand Dos Passos' point of view better.