The concluding volume of John Dos Passos's U.S.A. is a heartbreaking, panoramic portrait of America in the 1920s. The striving characters are blunted at nearly every turn, and even their successes contain the seeds of future failure. The high point is the Camera Eye chapter on the Sacco and Vanzetti case with its declaration that "all right we are two nations." A great novel never loses relevance; The Big Money meets that standard.
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