This account by James McGrath Morris of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, and its acrimonious end in Spain in 1937, explores the literary, political, and personal elements of the relationship in a swift-moving chronological narrative. Dos Passos was more wronged against, and the better human being, but Hemingway scores in his admonition to his friend against polemic literature. Looking back on Hemingway's early work and comparing it to Dos Passos's, it's not hard to see why the latter was on top with the critics in this rivalry, even if he occasionally had to borrow money from his far more financially successful friend to make ends meet.
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